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...creating humans afresh, Collins asked, "why would he insert a pseudo-gene that has lost its ability to do anything in the same place that it appears in a chimp?" Barring evolution, "you're forced to the conclusion that God was trying to mislead us and test our faith - and I have trouble with that kind of conjecture." (See the top 10 Jesus films of all time...
...115th mission for the ill-fated NASA shuttle program and the second since the 2003 destruction of the shuttle Columbia; carrying supplies and personnel to the International Space Station; at Cape Canaveral. The shuttle, the launch of which was twice delayed due to weather and safety concerns, will also test new inspection techniques to prevent a repeat of the Columbia disaster, in which seven astronauts were killed when their craft burned up on re-entry...
...aspirations has modulated himself too. At a press conference with British Prime Minister Tony Blair in May, Bush swore off the Wild West rhetoric of getting enemies "dead or alive," conceding that "in certain parts of the world, it was misinterpreted." Bush's response to the North Korean missile test was equally revealing. Under the old Bush Doctrine, defiance by a dictator like Kim Jong Il would have merited threats of punitive U.S. action--or at least a tongue lashing. Instead, the Administration has mainly been talking up multilateralism and downplaying Pyongyang's provocation. As much as anything...
...since late last summer, when all the parties agreed in principle that North Korea would shut down its nuclear program in exchange for security guarantees, the North has refused to show up for meetings. Now that Kim has ignored warnings--from the U.S., Russia and China--not to test his missile capability and is threatening more tests in the immediate future, the question for the Administration is, What, besides the status quo, are the remaining options for dealing with the world's most unpredictable totalitarian nuclear regime...
LAST MONTH, AS INTELLIGENCE REPORTS SUGGESTED that the Taepo Dong test was imminent, two former Clinton Administration officials, Defense Secretary William Perry and Assistant Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter, opined in the Washington Post that a nuclear North with an intercontinental ballistic missile presented too great a risk for the U.S. to bear. The moment had come, they argued, for a pre-emptive strike against the North Korean launch site. Even if Perry and Carter were speaking in part to a domestic political audience in an attempt to prove before the midterm elections that Democrats can sound tougher than...