| Assembly Series wrestles with bioethical questions
Looking back over the recent past, the advances in biomedicine seem astonishing. The birth of the first "test tube baby" 30 years ago, for example, was viewed as exotic and, to some, scary. Now, in vitro fertilization is commonplace. And yet, justifiable ethical concerns surround the human outcomes of these medical breakthroughs. .
Savard restates goal: Commit to making playoffs
The Blackhawks returned to work Monday afternoon, and the good news for them was their boss had calmed down a bit.
The Hawks hit the ice in Bensenville for their first practice since Denis Savard's postgame tirade after Thursday night's 1-0 loss to the Columbus Blue Jackets, and the coach put his club through a nearly two-hour practice that featured plenty of hitting and hard work.
"They really acted like professionals, and I expected that out of that group," Savard said. "I wasn't pleased with [Thursday's performance]. The message was pretty clear, and they responded."
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Tubby can feel Weber's pain
Three Februaries ago, the fab followers of Illinois basketball were circling Champaign to brush up against Bruce Weber's Final Four-bound genius. Today, some of those same Krushed brushers are simply circling Weber's basketball bones. Tubby Smith knows the sting of faded April joy. He beat the blue posse out of Kentucky last spring with his 1998 NCAA championship banner still on display and now has his first-edition Minnesota Golden Gophers amped and waiting for this evening's visit from Weber and the struggling Illini (8, Big Ten Network, 560-AM). As a thriving survivor, Smith professed nothing but empathy and perspective Monday for his blue-circled colleague. ''Stay in this business long enough, and it's going to happen,'' said Smith, who completed a 10-year run in Lexington of 263-83 (.761) before bolting to sign a reported seven-year, $12.8 million deal at Minnesota last March.
May 2006
(The Euston group formally launched on May 26 in London. Several members have also written op-eds -- see here -- as part of the roll out. Norman Geras, a government professor at the University of Manchester, has been particularly insightful, including this piece in the Guardian: Within the large "middle" sector of left-liberal opinion opposed to the war there has been, from the start, a differentiating subdivision - between those who opposed the war without being in denial about the considerations on the other side of the argument, and those who precisely have been in denial about them. This latter group extends well beyond the far left. The signs of denial are abundant in the recent public life of the western democracies: in the banners and slogans for that Saturday on February 15 2003, from which one would never have known that Saddam's Iraq was a foul tyranny; in the numbers of those on the left unwilling to allow, many indeed unable to comprehend, why others of us supported a regime-change war; in a constant stream of comment in liberal daily papers and weeklies of the left; in the excommunications issued and more recent calls for apology or recantation; and, most seriously, in the perceptible lack of interest in initiatives of solidarity with the forces in Iraq battling for a democratic transformation of their country, part of a wider lack of enthusiasm for the success of this enterprise given its origins in a war led by George Bush.) Posted on April 17, 2006: Though it hasn't garnered much media attention, there has been an interesting fight brewing within the political Left.
Let's not overthink playtime
When I was little, my bedroom faced the front of the house. Our neighborhood swarmed with kids. In the summer, the window was always open -- we had no air conditioning, of course -- and I remember my dad liking to take naps there on long Sunday afternoons. Why? Because, he said, he loved so much to hear the happy sounds of the children playing outside. You know, that faraway/right there cacophony of children squealing and yelping and chasing and playing. So unstructured, so fun. A sense of innocence about it. That was at a time when parents literally said, "Go play in the street." At least mine did. We would play four-square and hopscotch by the hour on the quiet street in front of our suburban Chicago (Arlington Heights) home. A car would come, we'd clear out for a moment, then go back to our game.
More Adults Returning to College as Part of New Year's Resolutions
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'Stars' obscured by clouds
The time has come for "Dancing With the Stars" to change its name. Presumably they decided against "Dancing With the Has-Beens, Aging Athletes Out of Their Element and Women Dealing With Personal Tragedies" because it was too long. Let's just be thankful they stopped hiring "Beverly Hills, 90210" alumni before they got to Shannen Doherty. .
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