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When President Bush yet again vetoed a bill supporting embryonic stem cell research last Wednesday, I expected more of a reaction here in Washington, D.C. But while people were frustrated and irritated, it was no different than any other day. Perhaps it was because I don't work "on the Hill," or because my coworkers at a health policy think tank are so accustomed to this behavior from the Bush Administration. Bush's stem cell policy, however, is unacceptable. It is not only stifling funds for research that could save lives, but it does not even effectively address the moral...
Funding embryonic stem cell research, Bush says, would “cross a moral line.” The research requires stem cell lines, which must be created by destroying embryos that are a few days old. Uncomfortable with this procedure, the Bush Administration adopted a policy in 2001 that federal funding can be used only to conduct research on lines created before August 9, 2001. At the time, there were about 70 viable “Presidential lines.” Now, between nine and 21 usable ones remain, depending on who is defining “usable...
...main reasons cited for low condom usage in India is "lack of pleasure in the usage of the condom," says Hindustan Latex spokesman S. Jayaraj. "The vibrating ring provided with the condom was introduced as a pleasure enhancer" in order to encourage their use, thus helping stem the country's burgeoning epidemic of HIV/AIDS. (It also "helps to hold the condom in position," Jayaraj adds...
...whine for. With health-care costs hobbling profits, more employers are saying to employees, Get healthy--or else. After all, insurance premiums and absenteeism by sick workers set businesses back $15 billion a year, says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And yet 70% of health-care costs stem from preventable chronic diseases. Take diabetes, which costs nearly $92 billion a year: 91% of cases could be avoided by better eating. Smoking-related illnesses rack up an additional $75 billion a year...
There's a lot to recommend this view. For starters, it gets jihadism right. Al-Qaeda-- style terrorism does stem more from state breakdown than state power. (Compare pre- and post-Saddam Iraq.) The weak-state concept also makes Democratic foreign policy broader than its Republican equivalent. In Bush-esque speeches this spring, Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani tried--unconvincingly--to cram virtually all of American foreign policy into the war on terror. Weak states, by contrast, offer Democrats a prism that isn't confined to the Islamic world...