"We really felt like the Lord was calling us to try to give one of these embryos, these children, a chance to live," Ms. McClure said.

Mr. McClure, though, disliked the fertility business, which he felt created extra embryos that were often destroyed or aborted. He feared that paying fees to receive the embryos would be helping an industry "that I have real problems with."

He consulted a Southern Baptist church elder, who advised him, " 'If you want to free the slaves, sometimes you have to deal with the slave trader,' " Mr. McClure said.

I hate people.

From Stem Cell Opponents, an Embryo Crusade

] Europe's highest court said Tuesday that it had no
] jurisdiction in a case involving the practice of buying
] drugs in low-priced countries within the European Union
] and diverting them to nations that set higher prices.

Lessig has argued that price discrimination on the part of drug companies is not necessarily a bad thing.

Court Refuses to Hear Case on European Drug Pricing

] The Bush administration, facing a series of recent
] provocations from North Korea, is debating a plan to seek
] a United Nations resolution empowering all nations to
] intercept shipments in or out of the country that may
] contain nuclear materials or components, say senior
] administration officials and diplomats who have been
] briefed on the proposal.

White House May Go to U.N. Over North Korean Shipments

]
] Like Thoreau and the band Devo, psychology professor
] Schwartz provides ample evidence that we are faced with
] far too many choices on a daily basis, providing an
] illusion of a multitude of options when few honestly
] different ones actually exist.

This is something that Negativland has been saying for a long
time, actually...

Books: The Paradox Of Choice: Why More Is Less

] Year after year, Wal-Mart's low pay and meager
] employee benefits force hundreds of thousands of
] employees to resort to Medicaid, food stamps, and public
] housing. Call it the Wal-Mart Tax. And it
] costs you $1.5 billion in federal tax dollars every year.

They had a full-page ad in the Times today.

Welcome to the new WalmartWatch.com

] As the Senate heads into a showdown over judges, Senator
] John W. Warner of Virginia is one of a select few
] Republicans at the center of a bipartisan courtship.

As Vote on Filibuster Nears, G.O.P. Senators Face Mounting Pressure

] As the Senate heads toward a showdown over the rules
] governing judicial confirmations, Senator Bill Frist, the
] majority leader, has agreed to join a handful of
] prominent Christian conservatives in a telecast
] portraying Democrats as "against people of faith" for
] blocking President Bush's nominees.

Pandering by any other name ... utterly despicable.

I have struggled for some time to understand what's really driving the fundie side of this. Maybe they're just fascists. On the other hand, maybe this represents the death throes of that fantasy of the 1950s and that they see this as about to go away for good and are trying desperately to hang onto it. I can't figure it out.

Frist Set to Use Religious Stage on Judicial Issue

]
] The Internet Governance Project has entered that breach
] with a new policy paper: "What to Do About ICANN: A
] Proposal for Structural Reform." The proposal, by Hans
] Klein and myself, proposes three clean, clear but
] probably controversial solutions to the criticisms that
] have been made of ICANN.
]
] The criticisms that have emerged from the WSIS process
] include unilateral U.S. oversight, concerns about the
] role of national governments, the exercise of
] governmental powers without corresponding mechanisms for
] accountability, and a lack of legitimacy.

See internetgovernance.org for the paper.

The Ultimate Solution to Internet Governance: Let ITU and ICANN compete

] Pope John Paul II died today, finally succumbing to years of
] illness endured painfully and publicly, ending an extraordinary, if
] sometimes polarizing, 26-year reign that remade the papacy.

Pope John Paul II Dies

] The life and death of Terri Schiavo - intensely public,
] highly polarizing and played out around the clock on the
] Internet and television- has become a touchstone in
] American culture. Rarely have the forces of politics,
] religion and medicine collided so spectacularly, and with
] such potential for lasting effect.

After such a long, hard-won battle for right-to-die, this case may set us back a few ... decades.

Schiavo's Case May Reshape American Law