High impact: the year's boldest idea may have also been its biggest failure

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The World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks of September 11, 2001, were assessed, reluctantly, as brilliant in conception and execution in the first weeks following. Further reflection, however, reveals the idea behind them to have been fundamentally, and fatally, flawed, invoking as it did the terrible response of the world's greatest military power.

United States, Analysis, Planning, Military policy, Terrorism, Terrorists, bin Laden, Osama, World Trade Center and Pentagon Attacks, 2001, Al-Qaeda

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Fixing the First Lady problem

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Ernestine Schlant would not be the typical First Lady. She earned a doctorate in comparative literature after emigrating to the US from Germany. Her book, 'The Language of Silence: West German Literature and the Holocaust' is analyzed.

Evaluation, Presidents, Family, Bradley, Bill, First ladies, Politicians' spouses, Schlant, Ernestine

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Promotion of the fittest

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The use of genetic screening in the workplace is discussed with reference to moral aspects and potential benefits. The influence of insurance on the decision to ban genetic discrimination is presented.

Usage, Ethical aspects, Genetic screening, Genetic testing, Genetic discrimination

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