1. The notion that destruction of a few days’ old embryo amounts to killing human life is not just flawed, it is over the top.
2. With a stroke of the pen, President George Bush has dealt a body blow to science and dashed the hopes of countless human beings round the world who look to human embryonic stem cell research as a possible cure for their afflictions.
3. The exact time when life begins is a debatable issue and scientists see such embryos as nothing more than a bunch of cells.
4. His veto of a Bill seeking to enlarge federal funding for the research underlines the fact that fundamentalist religious objections, not scientific considerations, matter when his administration deals with issues that seem to conflict with far-Right ideology.

1. The innovative global measure of progress, the Happy Planet Index, has been constructed by the New Economics Foundation (NEF) and Friends of the Earth using three factors : life expectancy, human well-being, and damage done via a country’s “environmental footprint.”
2. The index has been compiled to draw attention to the fact that it is not necessary to use up the earth’s resources to achieve long life and happiness.
3. The most happy place on the planet is the South Pacific Island Nation of Vanuatu, according to a radical new index published on Wednesday.
4. Vanuatu comes top because its people are satisfied with their lot, live to nearly 70 and do little damage to the planet.

1. To feel less than someone or something – the definition of inferiority – is natural in childhood when we are surrounded by the incomprehensible and things that other, ‘bigger’ people seem to take in their stride.

1. But if a child is made to feel inadequate in some way, this natural feeling can crystalise into a sense of not being good enough, clever enough, or able enough and years later surface as a sense of inferiority.
2. A wise parent will reassure the child through explanation and ensure that he grows through each new experience.
3. Often such a feeling can be handed down subliminally from parent to child, through many generations, without anyone realizing that this is happening.
4. If, for instance, a family believes that it is a victim of circumstances, the expectation will develop that something awful is bound to happen.

6. If, with practice, that expectation and attitude can be changed, the whole family can benefit.

1. In 2000, he will give a keynote address at the World Economic Forum in Davos, and Zanders will publish his first book.
2. Zander, an orchestra conductor at Boston, feels - a lot.
3. What does business have to do with music ?
4. His unorthodox ideas about leadership have coaxed stunning performances out of his orchestra and inspired lecture halls full of executives from NASA, IBM, McDonald’s, and Merril Lynch.
5. Zander, who wins classical music concerts by plunking headphones on their ears, believes music is a metaphor for leadership – and that leaders should inspire without creating hierarchies.

1. If you are a manager dealing with poor performance, look first at these two causes.
2. Both happen to be rather difficult to solve
3. The former will almost certainly require some careful job design and better cooperation between individuals or departments; the latter will demand understanding and patience.
4. The most straightforward causes of an employee’s poor performance are the “mechanical” causes – perhaps the company is not providing him with the tools of the information he needs; and the “personal” causes – perhaps she is still grieving from a recent death in the family.
5. Inspite of this limitation, as a manager it would allow you to at least identify these situations in the office.