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...watched a movie, got things done. Just two weeks ago, the Republican President phoned the Democratic Senator to congratulate him on the education bill they had maneuvered through Congress together. But if one week is a long time in politics, two weeks is an eternity. The Odd Couple has split up, because Washington has resumed its four-year war over the patients' bill of rights. The issue: How much power should government give people to sue and second-guess the insurance companies and health-maintenance organizations that make life-and-death decisions about medical care...
...President Jack E. Meyer said the split was “friendly,” and that the Select team will be sorely missed at the investment firm...
...presented as no more or less valid than the last; one Catholic rejects stem cell research, but another accepts it; the Methodists might want to protect embryos, but traditional Jewish law treats them “as if they were water.” Finally, the Commission tries to split the baby—perhaps literally—by deciding that embryos merit some respect as “a form of human life,” but not quite so much respect as an adult. A nice compromise, since it leads to no distinct conclusions and satisfies...
...observed--particles with quirky names like neutralino and axion. These are the mysterious dark matter, or most of it anyway. The cosmic background radiation itself began to shine when the universe was 300,000 years old, but the temperature fluctuations were set in place when it was just a split-second old. "It's pretty cool," says Tegmark, "to be able to look back that...
...they still manage to work together? "I shield my real self from him and just focus on work," she says. "I don't want him to know too much about me, too much of my private life." She wonders what would happen if they did split up, what he might do with all of the insights he has stored up. "It would make me feel very vulnerable," she says. "That scares me." Shu Qi isn't prepared to say exactly what it is that might be so worrisome. Nor will she say how much her manager takes as a commission...