Though many egg donors derive great satisfaction from knowing that they helped someone start a family, the price of human eggs has soared in recent years as demand has increased, and the sizable payments raise controversy, says the New York Times.
According to a survey published this month in the journal
Animal activists have in recent weeks said that a baby polar bear named Knut born in the Berlin Zoo should be euthanised rather than be subjected to the humiliation of being raised as a domestic pet, says James M. Taylor, managing editor of Environment and Climate News.
However, there
Germany’s guest worker programme of the 1950s and 1960s which admitted more than a million people ended with some 80 per cent going home after two years. Others stayed but still lived on the fringe of society, showing that the temporary versus permanent debate is not the either/or
Regulators recently gave the green light to restart an old Alabama nuclear power plant, signalling the rebirth of an industry put into the deep freeze by the 1979 accident at Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island nuclear plant, says USA Today.
But now even some environmental groups have come to realise that a
As gas prices pass $3.00 a gallon, several members of Congress have taken aim once again at oil companies, promoting everything from a windfall profits tax to breaking the companies up. Yet rather than attacking “big oil,” Congress should look in the mirror, says H. Sterling Burnett, senior fellow with
