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I'm Not Against International Institutions That Would Try To Tackle Global Warming. But The Way To Go, At Least In The Short Run, Is To Go To Nuclear Power. It's Amazing To Me That People Who Are So Alarmed About Global Warming Are So Reluctant To Adopt The Obvious Short-term Solution - The Bridge Until The Day When We Have Affordable Renewable Energy - Of Nuclear Power.

In The Middle Ages People Took Potions For Their Ailments. In The 19th Century They Took Snake Oil. Citizens Of Today's Shiny, Technological Age Are Too Modern For That. They Take Antioxidants And Extract Of Cactus Instead.

What Politicians Do Not Understand Is That [ian] Wilmut Discovered Not So Much A Technical Trick As A New Law Of Nature. We Now Know That An Adult Mammalian Cell Can Fire Up All The Dormant Genetic Instructions That Shut Down As It Divides And Specializes And Ages, And Thus Can Become A Source Of New Life. You Can Outlaw Technique; You Cannot Repeal Biology. Writing After Wilmut's Successful Cloning Of The Sheep, Dolly, That Research On The Cloning Of Human Beings Cannot Be Suppressed.

Torture Is An Impermissible Evil. Except Under Two Circumstances. The First Is The Ticking Time Bomb. An Innocent's Life Is At Stake. The Bad Guy You Have Captured Possesses Information That Could Save This Life. He Refuses To Divulge. In Such A Case, The Choice Is Easy.

Life And Consciousness Are The Two Great Mysteries. Actually, Their Substrates Are The Inanimate. And How Do You Get From Neurons Shooting Around In The Brain To The Thought That Pops Up In Your Head And Mine? There's Something Deeply Mysterious About That. And If You're Not Struck By The Mystery, I Think You Haven't Thought About It.