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...named to 2005's TIME 100 for her campaign against Islamic extremism, quit the Dutch Parliament in May after being told she would be stripped of citizenship for lying on her 1992 application for asylum. Immigration Minister Rita Verdonk flip-flopped last week, saying Hirsi Ali's citizenship was safe. But the Dutch coalition government was not, and collapsed amid discord over Verdonk's original move. Hirsi Ali, 36, regrets that the citizenship issue was politicized and not debated more seriously. "This is absurd," she says. "The more this goes on, the more I think, Let's just...
...remains to be seen. Neither NAS nor ISSCR has any enforcement authority, but ISSCR hopes that by taking a leading role, it will promote other groups - and perhaps even governments - to join them and streamline the guidelines to ensure that human embryonic stem cell research is conducted in a safe and ethical way. "The fact that ISSCR now has a draft means that the international research community now has a common language," says Jan Helge Solbakk, a task force member from the University of Bergen in Norway. "When we have a common language, we can start to discuss what...
...difficult to retain. Their father, a photographer at TIME magazine assigned to cover the Vietnam War, has moved to Hong Kong from New York with the idea that, "Hong Kong would be safer than Saigon; an old-fashioned British enclave." He and his family soon find that nowhere is safe. The girls hear from their amah about the turmoil in their looming neighbor to the north: news of Chinese communists closing down schools and destroying homes during the Cultural Revolution. Their mother tries to escape the tension by surrounding herself with "the charm and comforts of the colonial era," taking...
Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the recreation room, that ubiquitous piece of 1970s furniture?the beanbag chair?reappears on the scene. But this time, shapeless blobs are out, and eye-popping new forms and fabrics are in. Designer models are plopping down in lofts, home cinemas, trendy bars, even dining rooms. Here are five you won't want to hide in your closet...
...James Maury and the Nile would be "ransomed"-released after their masters had signed written promises stating that their vessels' owners would later pay the Confederate government money equal to the vessels and their cargos. Once the signatures were secured, those two vessels would be allowed to return to safe harbor in San Francisco. The eight others would be burned to the waterline and sunk...