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Mon, 07/07/2008 - 20:03Culture
(This is the first of a three-part series on the controversy surrounding human cloning)(CNSNews.com) - For as long as twins have been born, humankind has tinkered with the idea of cloning, said one scholar of biological science.But the idea may soon become a reality. A team of scientists in Europe has announced its goal is to clone a human being by the year 2003. "The effort will be to assist…
Mon, 07/07/2008 - 20:03Culture
(This is the second of a three-part series on the controversy surrounding human cloning)(CNSNews.com) - It used to be easy to separate reality from myth when it came to cloning. However, in light of technological advances, a private group of scientists in the United Kingdom now says its intends to clone a human by the year 2003, an audacious goal that may increase the public's acceptance of an…
Mon, 07/07/2008 - 20:03Culture
(CNSNews.com) - Using John Ashcroft's name as a code-word for homophobia, opponents of capital punishment are trying to stop a convicted killer from being executed Tuesday night in Missouri.Stanley Lingar, his attorneys argue, was sentenced to death in what they call "John Ashcroft country" only because prosecutors mentioned Lingar's homosexuality in their arguments before the jury."His sexual…
Mon, 07/07/2008 - 20:03Culture
(CNSNews.com) - A woman arrested for intoxication and strapped naked to a board in an Iowa jail was awarded $5,000 for civil rights infringements - but wrongfully so, said the county sheriff who was named as one of the defendants in the case."She and the attorneys she had working for her asked for $525,000 but they were awarded just $5,000," said Story County Sheriff Paul H. Fitzgerald. "That…
Mon, 07/07/2008 - 20:03Culture
(CNSNews.com) - Congressional Republicans are sponsoring legislation to strengthen regulations on the so-called "abortion drug," RU-486, which the Food and Drug Administration approved for sale in the U.S. last summer. Rep. David Vitter (R-Louisiana) and Sen. Tim Hutchinson (R-Ark.) together sponsored the "RU-486 Patient Health and Safety Act," which would impose five conditions for dispensing…
Mon, 07/07/2008 - 20:03Culture
(This is the third of a three-part series on the controversy surrounding human cloning)(CNSNews.com) - Cloning does not violate the laws of God or man, and is in fact, just another method to "make babies," said one physicist and scientist who dreams of becoming the first to successfully duplicate a human."Babies are fun, lots of fun," said Richard G. Seed, a cloning advocate with various degrees…
Mon, 07/07/2008 - 20:03Culture
(CNSNews.com) - It will be like night and day, one analyst said, describing how Attorney General John Ashcroft's policies regarding gun crime will compare with his predecessor's, Janet Reno. "He will focus more on the criminal, and less on the tools used to create crimes," said H. Sterling Burnett, a senior policy analyst for the Dallas-based National Center for Policy Analysis. By contrast,…
Mon, 07/07/2008 - 20:03Culture
CORRECTION: Corrects name of Democratic supporter of earlier bill.(CNSNews.com) - A South Carolina congressman is renewing his push to establish federal legal status for unborn children when their pregnant mothers are the victims of violent crime.Rep. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said he's optimistic his Unborn Victims of Violence Act will survive the legislative process this year, after having been…
Mon, 07/07/2008 - 20:03Culture
(CNSNews.com) - The upcoming appearance of National Rifle Association President Charlton Heston at a Catholic university is generating controversy, but not for what you might think. The controversy is over comments made by another conservative who plans to introduce Heston at the event. Tom Adkins, executive editor of the Common Conservative and frequent contributor to the Philadelphia Inquirer…
Mon, 07/07/2008 - 20:03Culture
Chicago (CNSNews.com) - The conventional criticism of President George Bush's faith-based charities initiative is that it will violate the so-called "separation of church and state" notion that many liberals hold sacrosanct. But Rev. Michael Boland, administrator of Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago, said his organization has been collaborating with the federal government for a…
Mon, 07/07/2008 - 20:03Culture
Austin (CNSNews.com) - In the Texas capital city of Austin, where President George W. Bush worked for six years as governor, some faith-based charities express vigorous support for the White House plan to let groups like theirs compete for federal funding. But some other faith-based charities are convinced Bush's plan is the wrong approach. Bush's Faith-Based Initiative would not fund social…
Mon, 07/07/2008 - 20:03Culture
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(CNSNews.com) - Two southern Democrats are teaming up to create what they call a "safe harbor" of television programming for kids by forcing the federal government to crack down on violent TV shows.The measure, called the Children's Protection from Violent Programming Act, would require the Federal Communications Commission to "prohibit the…
Mon, 07/07/2008 - 20:03Culture
(CNSNews.com) - The non-profit group Planned Parenthood launched an on-line fundraising campaign last week called "Planned Parenthood Presidents' Day Message Campaign." Visitors to the group's Web site are invited to make a donation to Planned Parenthood on behalf of President Bush and write a message that, in exchange for the contribution, will be forwarded to the president.The international…
Mon, 07/07/2008 - 20:03Culture
Madison, Wisconsin (CNSNews.com) - A student's failure to use surnames when addressing any school employee might mean a community service sentence under a proposal from a Wisconsin Republican legislator."My reasoning is if they are respectable to the teachers, then they are respectable to their peers," said Rep. Carol Owens of Oshkosh, which is just south and east of Green Bay in Wisconsin's…
Mon, 07/07/2008 - 20:03Culture
Vancouver, B.C. (CNSNews.com) - In what has been described as "the most important decision on religious freedom in years," the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that a private Christian university has the right to train teachers for public-school classrooms despite its belief that homosexual behavior constitutes sin.The court rejected Thursday the British Columbia College of Teachers (BCCT)…
Mon, 07/07/2008 - 20:03Culture
(CNSNews.com) - The Maine Supreme Court's recent ruling, that parents do have a limited right to use physical force when disciplining a child, has sparked another national debate over corporal punishment. "I am totally against any corporal punishment," said Murray Straus, co-director of the Family Research Laboratory at the University of New Hampshire. And Strauss believes corporal punishment is…
Mon, 07/07/2008 - 20:02Culture
CG Air Station, Cape Cod, MA - The body of John F Kennedy Jr was found early this morning still inside the fuselage of his plane that crashed off the coast of Martha's Vineyard.White House sources have told the media that Navy divers working round the clock found a large section of the plane last night with Kennedy's body still on board.Federal investigators said yesterday that they believed…
Mon, 07/07/2008 - 20:02Culture
First write-thru with quotes from NTSB and divers updateCG Air Station Cape Cod - The body of John F. Kennedy Jr was reportedly found early this morning still inside the fuselage of plane that crashed off the coast of Martha's Vineyard.White House sources have told the media that Navy divers working round the clock found a large section of the plane last night with Kennedy's body still on board.A…
Mon, 07/07/2008 - 20:02Culture
Capitol Hill (CNS) They may have been on Capitol Hill, but what was on the minds of a group of children from inner-city Washington, DC, were hills of a completely different sort the ski slopes. (photos of event)A group of inner-city kids spent Thursday testing out a ski simulator in front of the U.S. Capitol, as part of the kickoff for an innovative program a partnership between federal,…
Mon, 07/07/2008 - 20:02Culture
CG AIR STATION CAPE COD - The bodies of John F Kennedy Jr, his wife, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, and her sister Lauren Bessette have been found off Martha's Vineyard, federal officials said this afternoon.A second dive is now under way to recover the three bodies and bring them to the surface for positive identification, Jim Hall, chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, and Coast…