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            <title>What Hurts Your Facebook Friends?</title>
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            <description>With Facebook and other social networking websites such an integral part of many people&amp;#8217;s lives, you have to wonder &amp;#8212; what kinds of things do people do that hurt their social networking &amp;#8220;friends?&amp;#8221;
It&amp;#8217;s a brave new world online, where a misstep on a social networking website like Facebook can result in hurt feelings between real friends.
A researcher was interested in figuring out (Tokunaga, 2011) which of our online behaviors on social networking websites were more likely to lead to the greatest hurt feelings amongst our online &amp;#8220;friends.&amp;#8221; He found three specific things a person can do that can lead to hurt feelings on sites such as Facebook and Myspace.
Here&amp;#8217;s what he found out.

The researcher&amp;#8217;s sample consisted of 197 undergraduate st...</description>
            <author>World of Psychology</author>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2011 11:51:43 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Bad Mommy! The Baby Blues and Postpartum Depression</title>
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            <description>Eighteen years ago, when I gave birth to my son, I was a wreck; depressed and racked with guilt over it. I learned later I wasn&amp;#8217;t alone. Many mothers felt the same way when their kids were born, only they kept it quiet. Today, thank God, the silence is broken and women can admit just how imperfect their mommy-ness feels at times.
Back in the old days, however, it was odd for a woman to confess that she didn’t feel a strong traditional pull to be a mother. We&amp;#8217;re talking way back &amp;#8212; before cell phones, before the Internet, before Facebook, even before reality television shows!
For my husband and me, circumstances beyond our control forced us to consider life without children. Having the choice taken away from us because of my chronic illness was depressing and we had to wo...</description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 16:56:02 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Memorial Day, 2010</title>
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            <description>Another Memorial Day here in the U.S., and another year that we commemorate and remember those who&amp;#8217;ve given their lives for our freedom and our nation. 
Those who have died did so that, in the future, our country might be safer. They died so that great evils could be done away with in WWII (and WWI). They died so that politicians could wage endless, unwinnable wars for political ideals (Vietnam, Korea, and now Iraq). They died, quite simply, so that we could enjoy the freedoms we so often take for granted in our country.
I am grateful for the country I live in and for the sacrifices others have made to not only attain its freedom, but to keep it. Today, we remember their lives. 
For every veteran and every active duty soldier and individual in military uniform &amp;#8212; thank you. Than...</description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 13:08:11 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Google and Facebook, Therapists and Clients</title>
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            <description>With more and more therapists embracing social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, the question arises &amp;#8212; where do you draw the line in terms of boundaries with your patients? Where does a patient&amp;#8217;s and therapist&amp;#8217;s privacy end or begin on such sites? How do patients and therapists navigate this brave new world of connectedness and &amp;#8220;friending&amp;#8221;?
Dana Scarton over at The Washington Post has the insightful article addressing this issue by talking to a number of therapists across the country. These therapists have had to deal with their own challenges with social networking sites and &amp;#8220;researching&amp;#8221; people online once it was brought into psychotherapy by a client or a client&amp;#8217;s actions.
Professional associations haven&amp;#8217;t addressed this ki...</description>
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            <title>Memorial Day, 2009</title>
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            <description>This Memorial Day in the U.S. &amp;#8212; like every Memorial Day &amp;#8212; we commemorate and remember those who&amp;#8217;ve given their lives for our freedoms and our nation. &amp;#8220;Given their lives&amp;#8221; is really not accurate, though, as Andy Rooney noted &amp;#8212; these soldiers died, plain and simple. They died so that in the future, our country might be safer or democracy might be nurtured in an otherwise hostile environment. They died so that great evils could be done away with in WWII (and WWI). They died so that politicians could wage endless, unwinnable wars for political ideals (Vietnam, Korea, and now Iraq). They died, quite simply, so that we could enjoy the freedoms we so often take for granted in our country.
I hope, like most people, that in the future war become less of an option ...</description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 10:08:36 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Fetal Farming Research Ongoing in Animals</title>
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            <description>I have oft asserted that the embryonic stem cell debate is not the far end of the instrumental use of unborn humans, but the launching pad. Once the principle is established that early embryos can be used as a natural resource, it won't be long until gestated nascent human life is also targeted.I believe that most bioethicists and biotechnologists know this, but aren't candid about the prospect because of the political harm that would inflict on the brave new world project. For example, in 2002 the Stanford bioethicist Henry T. Greely, who served on a California bioethics board was challenged when he appeared at a neuroethics conference about the commission's recommended 14-day maximum limit for doing research on cloned embryos--which is now California law. As reported in my book Consumer'...</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 16:14:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Human Exceptionalism Requires That We Do Our Duty to Promote Animal Welfare</title>
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            <description>When the rulers of To the Source saw my piece &quot;Homo Sapiens, Get Lost&quot; in NRO about the the growing anti-humanism that is infecting the environmental movement, it gave them an idea. They asked me to write a piece for TTS, using the same Brave New World analogy as a launching pad that I used in NRO, but to take the thrust of the piece in a different direction. Using the principles of human exceptionalism, they asked me to distinguish the instrumental use of nascent human life in biotechnology and contrast it to an upcoming animal welfare event known as &quot;Be Kind to Animals Week.&quot; That seemed like a nice challenge and so I hit the old keyboard, resulting in &quot;Keep the Human in Humane.&quot;First, I describe the ongoing threat of brave new world biotechnology. From the piece:Looking around, can ther...</description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:14:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Law Waves U.S. Flag at Pirates</title>
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            <description>Yesterday the U.S. House passed by voice vote a resolution praising the captain and crew of the U.S.-flagged ship Maersk Alabama that was seized by Somali pirates earlier this month. It was a riveting story that ended well for the brave crew and their Captain Richard Phillips, thanks to the work of Navy Seal sharpshooters. But one question that has yet to be adequately discussed is just what that ship was doing over in such dangerous waters off the coast of strife-torn Somalia.
The answer may surprise you: the U.S. government sent them there.
The ship and its American crew of 20 were delivering U.S.-government food aid to Africa. Under the Food Security Act of 1985, food aid sponsored by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Agency for International Development must in most cases...</description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:58:37 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Lexapro Maker Accused of Fraud</title>
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            <description>Yet another story about a drug maker getting into trouble for its off-label marketing practices for a psychiatric medication, this time to children and teens. The drugs? Lexapro and its older sibling, Celexa. The manufacturer of them? Forest Laboratories. The New York Times has the story:

In a civil complaint filed by the United States attorney’s office in Boston, federal prosecutors alleged that former top executives at Forest concealed for several years a clinical study that showed that the drugs were not effective in children and might even pose risks to them, including causing some to become suicidal.
From 2001 to 2004, Forest heavily promoted results from another clinical trial it had financed that showed that the drugs were effective, without disclosing the negative study to those...</description>
            <author>World of Psychology</author>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:00:36 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Don't Worry: Refusing to Fund Human/Animal Hybrid Cloning Not About Morals</title>
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            <description>With The Independent on a tear because moral concerns might have been behind the failure of scientists to garner public funding to conduct human cloning with animal eggs, we get this badly needed assurance. From the story: Reports in the British media that grant applications to create hybrid human--animal embryos for research were turned down on moral grounds, have been rejected by the funding bodies and scientists involved.The story broke in the Independent newspaper on Monday, which claimed Stephen Minger, a leading stem cell scientist at King's College London, said that the grant applications may have been blocked by scientists on the funding committees who are morally opposed to the creation of cloned hybrid embryos. But when Nature spoke to Minger he said the Independent misinterprete...</description>
            <author>Secondhand Smoke</author>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:05:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Genetic Cleansing and the Corruption of Science Through Political Redefinition</title>
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            <description>Slate's Will Saletan--a favorite of mine even though we often disagree because he is a very good writer and unfailingly honest in his reportage--is onto the story of the baby girl born in the UK who was selected in--as her siblings were destroyed--because she did not have a gene that can cause adult onset breast cancer. From his column &quot;Eugenics Euphemisms:&quot; It's happy news. But let's take a closer look at the announcement, starting with the test &quot;before conception.&quot; This baby was tested as an embryo in a dish. She was one of 11 such embryos made by injecting drugs in the mother to stimulate production of excess eggs, which were then fertilized with the father's sperm. Six of the embryos had the gene for breast cancer. Three more had &quot;other abnormalities.&quot; All nine were &quot;discarded.&quot; The ot...</description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:16:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Whining Scientists Always Get Their Way in Brave New Britain</title>
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            <description>I posted yesterday about how &quot;the scientists&quot; in the UK are whining because their human/cow embryo cloning scheme has not been funded by the government. I said that once their whining hit the papers, things would change quickly, because in the UK--what the scientists want, the scientists get. That process of, ironically, imposing politics onto science funding is now well under way. From the story:The two research councils that have turned down requests to fund stem-cell studies using human-animal &quot;hybrid&quot; embryos are to be questioned by MPs on both sides of the House of Commons to explain why they have refused to issue the grants.As revealed by The Independent yesterday, the Medical Research Council (MRC) and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) have declined ...</description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 04:53:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Denying Funding for Human/Hybrid Cloning in Brave New Britain</title>
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            <description>&quot;The scientists&quot; in the UK are throwing a tantrum because their funding for the creation of human/cow hybrid embryos has apparently slowed. From the story:Britain's effort to lead the world in stem cell research with the creation of human-animal &quot;hybrid&quot; clones has ground to a halt through lack of funding less than a year after the controversial technique was legalised.Funding bodies are refusing to finance the research and existing projects have been run down to the point at which they may end completely within weeks. One of the researchers involved in the work said last night that the grant applications may have been blocked by scientists on the funding committees who are morally opposed to the creation of cloned hybrid embryos derived from mixing human cells with the eggs of cows, pigs ...</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 01:33:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Eugenically Child Born in Brave New Britain</title>
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            <description>Several SHSers have sent me the story of the birth of the baby girl, who was selected &quot;in&quot; as an embryo, as her &quot;defective&quot; siblings were destroyed, and permitted to be implanted and born because she did not carry a gene that gives rise to breast cancer. Yuval Levin has already discussed this matter over at NRO's blog The Corner, and he points out both the ethical implications of this event and an example of post modernism in journalism in which the BBC redefined &quot;conception&quot; to mean implantation in the womb instead of fertilization. From Levin's post: Better to eradicate the carriers, it seems, than to risk a potentially curable if very serious adult-onset illness. So should cancer patients wish they had never been born? Should the rest of us wish they hadn't been? The BBC itself then [st...</description>
            <author>Secondhand Smoke</author>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 21:58:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>We have no clue what it really means....Merry Christmas</title>
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            <description>The scene, a roundtable of geneticists reviewing a case.Geneticist 1: Well, some one (Non geneticist) astutely ordered genetic testing for condition X before we saw them. When we saw them we ordered a Chromosomal Micro Array (CMA) and a karyotype....Geneticist 2: Well, did you ate least think of condition X?Geneticist 1: Not really, it was pretty atypical for condition X so we thought we might find something with a CMA. Geneticist 3: You'll certainly find things with a CMA. Now what the hell you will do with those rare deletions and duplication is another topic.Geneticist 4 and Training Geneticist 5: &quot;Chuckle, Chuckle&quot;Geneticist 1: Well, while we were waiting for the CMA, we were notified by the patient's family, they have condition X....Geneticist 2: Wow, I would have thought it was Condi...</description>
            <author>Gene Sherpas: Personalized Medicine and You</author>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2008 11:17:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>UK Government Fights to Keep Details of Late Term Eugenic Abortions Secret</title>
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            <description>This is what we are becoming, aborting viable fetuses because they will not be physically perfect--and the the UK government wishes to keep it all under wraps. From the story:It centres on mothers who opt for termination because their unborn babies have been diagnosed with conditions such as club foot and cleft palate.Doctors say such conditions can usually be corrected by surgery.The Information Commissioner has ordered the release of the figures, but the Department of Health is resisting, claiming that disclosing the data could lead to women who have late abortions being identified.While abortion is only legal in the first 24 weeks of pregnancy if carried out on social grounds, &quot;Ground E&quot; of the 1967 Abortion Act makes it legal to abort a foetus which has a serious risk of physical or me...</description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2008 03:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Oh! Brave New Medical World</title>
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            <description>A few days ago, I wrote about the modern, protocol-driven nonsense of forcing the families of newly diagnosed young diabetics to have a psychiatric assessment. This sad state of affairs is one of the many by-products of dumbing down. A small but significant number of such families will find that their newly diagnosed diabetic child will develop behavioural problems which impact on the whole family. They will benefit from help. For them, psychiatric help is a “good thing” and such help should be available to all who need it. Unfortunately, the lower echelons of our dumbed down health care professionals cannot distinguish between the concept of psychiatric help being available to all on a “needs” basis and psychiatric help being provided for all. If it is “a good thing” then all ...</description>
            <author>NHS Blog Doctor</author>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 10:42:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Brave New Parenting: Using Genetics to Determine Which Sport Our Child Should Play</title>
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            <description>It used to be that the parental ideal was to expose one's children to many and varied activities so that they could discover for themselves the avocations and activities that most suited them. But apparently that's too messy and time consuming for some. A company is now offering to test children's genes to determine which sport they will be best at so that parents can cut through the dross and put them directly in that activity. From the story:When Donna Campiglia learned recently that a genetic test might be able to determine which sports suit the talents of her 2 ½-year-old son, Noah, she instantly said, Where can I get it and how much does it cost?&quot;I could see how some people might think the test would pigeonhole your child into doing fewer sports or being exposed to fewer things, but ...</description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 05:59:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Brave New Britain: Over Protecting Animals as the Intrinsic Worth of Being Human is Disdained</title>
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            <description>The UK has apparently promulgated a hyper-detailed set of regulations governing the treatment of animals. Rather than properly guard against actual abuse, it also bans permitting dogs to beg at the table and cats kept from looking out windows. From the story: The guidelines cover the environment for animals, diet, the company they enjoy, ensuring they exhibit normal behaviour patterns, as well as health and welfare issues. The code of practice for dogs advises against taking a dog for a walk during the hottest part of the day or feeding it less than an hour before vigorous exercise in order to avoid &quot;bloating&quot;. Owners should groom dogs with long hair at least once a day and all dogs should have teeth cleaned with dog chews or canine toothpaste as part of routine care. Training dogs should ...</description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:12:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Stem Cell Brain Drain in UK--Due to ESCR!</title>
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            <description>For years we have been warned that there would be a &quot;brain drain&quot; if we did not pour billions into ESCR and human cloning research. I have called this the &quot;blank check&quot; demand.Meanwhile, in Brave New Britain--the country that never says no--scientists wanting increasing funds warned that unless they received all of their demands, stem cell scientists would flee to the USA when President Bush leaves office and the policy changes. And now, a brain drain may have begun in the UK--only it is over the country's insufficient support for adult stem cell research. From the story:A leading British scientist is leaving the country to work in France after claiming that British science gives too much priority to embryo experiments over &quot;more ethical&quot; alternatives.Colin McGuckin, professor of regenerat...</description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:54:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Brave New Britain: You Can Be Cloned Without Consent in the UK</title>
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            <description>This is just unbelievable, or better stated given the UK's history in this field, it is all too believable. At the last minute, the Parliament in the UK added a provision to its omnibus embryo bill--that among other things permits human/animal hybrid cloned embryos to be manufactured--that if the bill passes into law as expected, permits the DNA of people to be used to clone embryos without consent. From a column about the story:How would you feel if your DNA were used without your permission to produce cloned human embryos for medical research? Regardless of whether it is right or wrong to experiment on human embryos, creating them would require either giving women high doses of drugs with unknown side effects to produce the large numbers of eggs needed for cloning research, or the placin...</description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:19:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Huxley was Right: A Whole New Meaning to the Term &quot;Making Babies&quot;</title>
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            <description>The hubris of the Brave New Worlders--and their folly--is on abundant display in this story about a future in which 100-year-old women will give birth. From the story:Woman will soon be able to give birth at the age of 100 due to advances in fertility treatment, scientists have predicted.Within three decades, women of any age--from children to pensioners--could successfully conceive as infertility is effectively eradicated, it is claimed. Experts say advances in germ cell technology in which skin cells are used to create sperm and eggs and then combined to make human embryos will soon allow women to start a family at any time in their lives.This pathetic need to control everything--including the natural rhythms of human existence--is sad and doomed to failure. For 100-year-olds to give bir...</description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>The Saddest Words I Ever Read: &quot;I Don't Have a Dad, I Have a Donor&quot;</title>
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            <description>From Leah Garchik's &quot;Public Eavesdropping&quot; feature in the San Francisco Chronicle: &quot;I don't have a dad, I have a donor.&quot;--One boy to another--do donor's get ties on Father's Day?--overheard in a kindergarten class by T. A. Francis.Worse still: Many of us won't see why that is sad. (Source: Secondhand Smoke)</description>
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            <title>Crazy Brave New Britain</title>
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            <description>By Jennifer LahlMonday, as was expected, the United  Kingdom approved the creation of human-animal hybrids for research. British officials have bought it hook line and sinker . . . they want to maintain their reputation as leaders in stem cell research. And since a strong contingent of organized groups have been successful at slowing down the human egg trade, creating a shortage of human eggs for research, the researchers are moving forward using enucleated animal eggs and adding in human genetic material, typically from a skin cell. Add a small jolt of electricity and Voila! The cybrid is here. Interspecies cloning has occurred.   Prime Minister Gordon Brown said, “these embryos would bring to an end 'the critical limiting factor in stem cell research: the lack of human eggs from which ...</description>
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            <title>Huge Political Row Over Legalizing Brave New Britain</title>
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            <description>The British Government is finding the road to passage of its new Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill extremely controversial. One would hope so. Consider some of its provisions as described by the Telegraph: Hybrid embryos: The Bill permits the creation of hybrid or &quot;chimera&quot; embryos, where human DNA is inserted into an animal cell for research. Implanting them into a woman or animal will be forbidden and embryos must be discarded after use. Pro-life campaigners and Catholic leaders are bitterly opposed.Embryo screening: Embryos created in fertility treatment can be screened for certain genetic diseases but parents will not be allowed to choose embryos that will develop an abnormality, a clause that has angered deaf parents who want a deaf child. Sex selection is also banned, except to...</description>
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