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...your report on a new procedure that may offer women the ability to freeze their eggs, thus lengthening their reproductive years [MEDICINE, Oct. 27]: the prospect of helping unfertilized human eggs transcend time raises the specter of babies born of mothers long deceased. Should a woman's death be accompanied by the destruction of her eggs? Or should the eggs of a particularly admired woman be allowed to reproduce ex post facto? Once again, science is so far ahead of the law that ethicists can only watch in wonder as the techno-train flies by. Disembodied eggs need living wills...
...Thailand the crisis put an end to what an analyst calls "golf-course capitalism" and raised the specter of domestic unrest. With credit growth far exceeding the growth rate of the economy, Thais had been investing in increasingly risky assets, dozens of golf courses among them. "Capital will be more productively used," says David Roche, president of Independent Strategy in London. "The people are the same...
WASHINGTON: Karl Marx had it right ? almost 150 years after The Communist Manifesto, "the specter of communism" is still provoking the union of strange political bedfellows. The enemy this time: cherubic Chinese President Jiang Zemin...
...This is what we most feared but could not previously prove," said Michael Iseman of the University of Colorado. "the world again faces the specter of incurable tuberculosis...
...mood was jubilant because the technique ? a hydrogenation of gasoline (or ethanol or methanol) ? is relatively elegant, eliminating the specter of electrical-charging stations and three-hour fill...