In hindsight, the issuance of a temporary injunction barring the NIH from funding human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research (by DC District Chief Judge Royce C. Lamberth) should hardly have come as a surprise. After all, many of the same plaintiffs and much of the same legal team...

So much for the doldrums of August. Little did we anticipate the recall of over half-billion shell eggs now linked to a nationwide outbreak of Salmonella Enteritidis. Almost 2,000 confirmed clinical cases, nearly triple the normal incidence, were reported between May and July with more likely to follow. No deaths...

One cannot help but note an eerie similarity between the birthright debates raging in the US and the State of Israel. Both nations are badly in need of resetting their immigration policies in the face of a rapidly globalizing flat planet. Both must face up to the reality that immigration...

Haiti's summer is getting off to an inauspicious and foreboding start. Summer is shorthand for the much feared Hurricane season for which a record 15 to 18 named storms has been forecasted. Summer is also coincident with the sixth anniversary of the much maligned UN peacekeeping mission to...