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with contributions from Gina Kolata, David Brooks, Charles Bickers

"When asked by Roper Starch Worldwide [a polling organization] in 1998 to rank the major problems facing America today, students aged twelve to nineteen most frequently named as their top five concerns selfishness, people who don't respect law and the authorities, wrongdoing by politicians, lack of parental discipline, and courts that care too much about criminals' rights."

David Brooks
"The Organization Kid"
The Atlantic Monthly
April 2001

"For Christians and Muslims the issue is clear-cut. The Catholic church is unequivocally against human cloning, as are most Protestant faiths. Islamic scholars in various countries ... have also rejected it. In each case, religious leaders in Christianity and in Islam view human cloning as a violation of God's will ..."

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