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In the Sunday Globe

Through good times, bad times, and everything in between, the one industry that Massachusetts could count on to keep adding jobs was health care. Not anymore.

"To my mind, there is no moral obstacle to using leftover fertility-clinic embryos that would otherwise be discarded for medical research. Nor do I regard a microscopic cluster of cells as a human person entitled to full legal protection. Nevertheless, Lamberth’s ruling makes this a good moment to ask a threshold question: Why should the federal government be funding controversial medical research in the first place?" Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby writes.

In Saturday's Globe

Dr. Andrew T. McAfee, an emergency medicine physisian from Brigham and Women’s Hospital was killed yesterday when the motor scooter he was driving collided with a truck in Brighton, hospital officials said.

Dr. Thomas Connolly, who practiced pediatrics for almost four decades, died of complications of a neurological disease Aug. 14 in his Needham home. He was 74.

'Watching characters smoke in movies is the single most powerful pro-smoking influence for children: It accounts for 44 percent of kids who smoke pick up a cigarette for the first time, according to an analysis of four separate studies," a Globe editorial says. "The World Health Organization, the American Heart Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the American Medical Association are among many organizations calling for a new policy that would assign an R rating to movies that depict smoking. ... It’s hard to think of another intervention that would prevent such devastation so inexpensively."