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...1970s, normal meant different things to different people. At the Business School, this coterie was exclusive, mostly Southern, white, male and as Ashby recalls, “casually dressed...
Shea found that Bush had an innate ability to connect with people—“he was president of the normal club...
...theory, it would be possible to clone a person by implanting that person’s cloned embryo in a woman’s uterus. Numerous animal studies indicate, however, that it is unlikely to work in the sense of producing normal individuals. Aside from the scientific limitations, responsible policy choices can eliminate the possibility of reproductive cloning in practice. Given simple and strict legislation and oversight, the line between reproductive cloning and nuclear transfer is clear and enforceable. Just because someone might abuse a technology to do harm against all odds and in defiance of the law surely should...
...complained that many U.S. states have been too slow to respond to registration applications, prompting fears that some overseas ballots won't arrive in time to be counted. Both Democrats and Republicans Abroad are busy handing out emergency federal write-in ballots to voters who haven't received their normal state ballots yet; their federal ballots will count if their state ballots don't reach election officials on time. Casting a vote from overseas can be "really complicated," says Jeffrey Wilson of AmDems in Shanghai. "In the U.S. it's simple: you just register and walk down to the polling...
...help wipe them out. Maskhadov seemed to agree with the idea, Aslan says, but ultimately, "he was too cowardly to give us the order." These days, the Wahhabis are clearly the more powerful of the two rebel factions. Despite Moscow's claims that life in Chechnya is returning to normal, clashes between guerrillas and Russian forces take place daily. The day after the meeting with Jamal, the Russians announced that they were on the verge of capturing Maskhadov in a major operation south of the capital. Yet that very day, a senior Maskhadov commander felt comfortable enough to stop...