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• Australia's Prime Minister, lead researcher clash in fetus row | John Howard has declared that his proposed laws on embryonic research do not involve the use of material from aborted human fetuses, putting him at odds with Australia's leading proponent of stem-cell research for the second time in five days (The Australian)
  
  
• Earlier: Abortions set to fuel stem cell research | Tissue from aborted human fetuses will be used in the culture of embryonic stem cells for the first time in Australia if the creation of new stem-cell lines is approved, the country's leading scientist in the field has revealed (The Sydney Morning Herald)

More life ethics:

• Abortion issue turns congressional race ugly | In the national fight for control of Congress, the Upton-Shugars race means nothing. Still, the contest is important for what it says about the importance of the abortion issue in southwest Michigan, known as the state's Bible Belt, and the influence of evangelical Christians on the election process. (The Detroit News)
  
  
• War resisters: 'We won't go' to 'We won't pay' | You could hardly find a more problematic time for pacifists who do not want their taxes spent on the military (The New York Times)

Pakistan church attack:

• Martyred in silence | The killing yesterday of six people at a Christian school in Pakistan is a reminder of the acute difficulties faced by Christian minorities in many parts of the Islamic world (Editorial, The Daily Telegraph, London)
  
  
• Pakistan school ponders its future | School's director says attackers had planned to do a lot more (Associated Press)
  
  
• Pakistan condemns 'cowardly' attack | Government says attack is retaliation for antiterrorism measures (BBC)
  
  
• In pictures: Pakistan school attack (BBC)
  
  
• Aussies caught in shooting horror | Witness says gunmen tried to force their way into hospital building where children were (AAP)
  
  
• Australia says Pakistan school attack was a deliberate strike against foreigners | Country calls for nationals to leave (Associated Press)
  
  
• Gunmen kill 6 at a Christian school in Pakistan | Four men shot their way into a boarding school for the children of Christian missionaries on Monday, gunning down six Pakistanis (The New York Times)
  
  
• Scene of Christian school attack was once British resort to escape blistering heat | A history of Murree (Associated Press)

Anniversary of Hiroshima bombing:

• Shock Waves | From Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The invasion that never was (John Wilson, Books & Culture)

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