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A year and a half after President Obama loosened restrictions on government funding of human-embryonic-stem-cell research, a federal judge on Monday, Aug. 23, declared all such studies temporarily off-limits for taxpayer dollars, on the grounds that they violate a 1996 law.
Craggy, weather-beaten Claude L. Fallwell had lived a full life, and he wanted a full epitaph
The world didn’t exactly shake when Betsy Daly stopped going to Blockbuster a year ago, but the movie-rental giant would be smart to ask itself whether this 33-year-old San Jose, Calif., mom represents the future. Daly now pays $15 a month to order her DVDs online
At Fountain Hill, near Danville, Va., Frank W.
People love guys who write constitutions. Their genius is celebrated by historians, their intentions debated by judges, their names attached to poorly performing middle schools.
As the antiausterity demonstration in Athens on Tuesday, June 28, devolved into familiar violent, tear-gas-soaked clashes between fringe anarchists and police outside Parliament, Giorgos Rallis shut off his television and stewed quietly about the immense dilemma facing his country.
Governor Andrew Cuomo didn’t exactly say it in so many words when he called — the message he left on our answering machine had a sort of rote, campaigny feel about it — but I had the impression he gives my family a lot of the credit for helping to push marriage equality to passage in New York. For years, my partner Erika and I have wanted to tie the knot in New York — the state where we live, where we met, where we first got to know each others’ families, where we spent summers on Fire Island, where our sons, now 7, were born
In the 1960s the torch was passed from age to youth, but in the 1970s the torch is being handed back again. Youth —the obsession of a few years ago, the hope of some, the fear of others —no longer makes great waves
Big solar producers should be feeling very, er, sunny.
Astronomers have used all sorts of tricks over the years to try to convey the mind-boggling scale of the universe to us ordinary folks.