September 19, 2007
‘Americans Will Not Like It’
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) turns fifty years old in 2008. Michael Griffin, the...
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September 19, 2007
Notes & Briefs
In late September 2007, a 51-year-old Brazilian woman gave birth to her own grandchildren. Brazilian law requires that...
June 20, 2007
Notes & Briefs
Zheng Xiaoyu, the head of China’s State Food and Drug Administration between 2003 and 2005, was executed on July...
June 20, 2007
‘Less Morally Problematic Alternatives’
In 1999, not long after human embryonic stem cells were first isolated, the National Bioethics Advisory Commission...
June 20, 2007
Soldiers for Rent
There are now about 180,000 civilian private contractors working in Iraq for the United States government. That figure,...
June 20, 2007
The Man in the Moon
The year 2007 marks the centennial of the birth, and the thirtieth anniversary of the death, of the distinguished...
June 20, 2007
Faces Disappearing
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a hereditary disease that affects much of the body, especially the lungs and digestive system,...
June 20, 2007
‘For Better or Worse’
On June 12, 2007, as part of a series of farewell speeches during his final days as prime minister of the United...
March 21, 2007
Notes & Briefs
After publishing phony research by notorious South Korean cloning researcher Hwang Woo Suk in 2004 and 2005, the...
March 21, 2007
Reforming NIH
I truly believe the NIH is one of America’s greatest assets,” President George W. Bush said on a visit to the...