A 21-year-old college student was attacked outside a bar and fell to the ground, hitting his head. He died ten days later. He had no wife, no children, and no fiancé. Should he now become a father?... Read full article

With an estimated 50 million blogs thriving or wavering on the Web, some recent headlines signal changes in the blogosphere: Blog and Beware…Blogger Jailed… Blogger Signs Off With Apology. Do bloggers need to be regulated to be responsible?... Read full article

The book is a classic. The movie was a blockbuster. But are we ready for scientists to clone a real-life Jurassic Park? Significant genomic accomplishments in the past year have increased the possibility, but is cloning the extinct responsible?... Read full article

One by one, people have been supposedly sorry for brazen bonuses, Ponzi ploys, steroid secrets, bloodying their girlfriends, and other assorted blunders of judgment. But does apologizing now mean you never have to accept responsibility?... Read full article

If you’ve made a New Year’s resolution about personal responsibility, you might have asked yourself, “Who can I help?” But would you ever ask, “Who can I sue?” That question is the focus of WhoCanISue.com, an online service that matches potential clients with lawyers, while begging a different question: does the site’s blunt come-on irresponsibly encourage more lawsuits?... Read full article

There’s been an abundance of odd headlines lately, fading before their 15 minutes, but one refuses to go away: Indian woman, 70, gives birth to first child after IVF treatment. Part oddity, part odyssey, the story of septuagenarian first-time mother Rajo Devi has reverberated around the world.... Read full article

For richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, in…cyberspace? Does the age-old marriage vow of fidelity need to be updated to make husbands and wives responsible for their behavior online? In what is said to be the first case of its kind, a woman is now divorcing her husband after catching the animated character he created online having a fictional affair in a computer role-playing game.... Read full article

After years of quietly gathering speed, there’s a growing movement to elevate public service to national service and in the process, set up incentives and opportunities that make it easier for each person to help another in need. The goal is to make volunteering as fundamental as voting.... Read full article