In the long run, there is nothing wrong in principle with designing good genes for children.

In the short term, there are reasons to prohibit it: the great danger that the artificial genes will backfire is one. The danger of malware in genes may arise, too.

Pakistan has made it hard for Afghans to get a visa, which 100,000 of them seek annually to get medical treatment or even a diagnosis.

I suppose the motive for this is to block travel by Taliban and other rebels. But ISTR that there was a large region of Pakistan near the frontier in which the government had little power, and that the islamists didn't need passports to cross the frontier. Has that situation changed?

Workers at Delta Airlines report harassment and threats against those that support unionization.

The tame deer of Nara in Japan are dying of hunger after their stomachs fill up with plastic bags discarded by tourists.

I suppose the bags smell somewhat like the food they contained.

Once, in Nara, I got a baked sweet potato for my own enjoyment. As I went strolling while eating it, I felt a thump on my back. A deer was butting me, demanding my food. I did not hand it over; beggars should not try to demand or intimidate.

Salafi Arabia doesn't think that jailing 30 journalists and murdering one should earn it a low ranking for press freedom.