The Europeans are the world masters at organizing conferences in Brussels committee rooms, however, now they are rapidly running out of time and credibility as they have sought to stem the forest fire of a sovereign-debt crisis almost a year after the Greek bond market hits the buffers and needed a bailout.

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The main impetus isn't the prospect of gender selection, although that will add fuel to the fire, but the controversy surrounding embryonic stem cell research.

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