Near the end of World War II and after, a small-town Nebraska youth, Jimmy Kugler, drew more than a hundred double-sided sheets of comic strip stories. Over half of these six-panel tales retold the Pacific War as fought by "Frogs" and "Toads," humanoid creatures brutally committed to a kill-or-be-killed struggle. The history of American youth depends primarily on adult reminiscences of their own childhoods, adult testimony to the lives of youth around them, or surmises based on at best a few creative artifacts. The survival then of such a large collection of adolescent comic strips from America's small-town Midwest is remarkable. Michael Kugler reproduces the never-before-published comics of his father's adolescent imagination as a microhistory of American youth in that formative era. Also included in Into the Jungle! A Boy's Comic Strip History of World War II are the likely comic book models for these stories and inspiration from news coverage in newspapers, radio, movies, and newsreels. Kugler emphasizes how US propaganda intended to inspire patriotic support for the war gave this young artist a license for his imagined violence. In a context of progressive American educational reform, these violent comic stories, often in settings modeled on the artist's small Nebraska town, suggests a form of adolescent rebellion against moral conventions consistent with comic art's reputation for "outsider" or countercultural expressions. Kugler also argues that these comics provide evidence for the transition in American taste from war stories to the horror comics of the late 1940s and early 1950s. Kugler's thorough analysis of his father's adolescent art explains how a small-town boy from the plains distilled the popular culture of his day for an imagined war he could fight on his audacious, even shocking terms.

Near the end of World War II and after, a small-town Nebraska youth, Jimmy Kugler, drew more than a hundred double-sided sheets of comic strip stories. Over half of these six-panel tales retold the Pacific War as fought by "Frogs" and "Toads," humanoid creatures brutally committed to a kill-or-be-killed struggle. The history of American youth depends primarily on adult reminiscences of their own childhoods, adult testimony to the lives of youth around them, or surmises based on at best a few creative artifacts. The survival then of such a large collection of adolescent comic strips from America's small-town Midwest is remarkable. Michael Kugler reproduces the never-before-published comics of his father's adolescent imagination as a microhistory of American youth in that formative era. Also included in Into the Jungle! A Boy's Comic Strip History of World War II are the likely comic book models for these stories and inspiration from news coverage in newspapers, radio, movies, and newsreels. Kugler emphasizes how US propaganda intended to inspire patriotic support for the war gave this young artist a license for his imagined violence. In a context of progressive American educational reform, these violent comic stories, often in settings modeled on the artist's small Nebraska town, suggests a form of adolescent rebellion against moral conventions consistent with comic art's reputation for "outsider" or countercultural expressions. Kugler also argues that these comics provide evidence for the transition in American taste from war stories to the horror comics of the late 1940s and early 1950s. Kugler's thorough analysis of his father's adolescent art explains how a small-town boy from the plains distilled the popular culture of his day for an imagined war he could fight on his audacious, even shocking terms.

Die hier vorgelegte Veroeffentlichung beinhaltet die aktualisierte und erweiterte Fassung eines Gutachtens, das im Sommer 2001 im Auftrag der Staatskanzlei des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen erstattet wurde. Die Untersuchung gibt einen UEber- blick uber die rechtlichen Regelungen des Embryonenschutzes und der Em- bryonenforschung einschliesslich der Herstellung und Verwendung von Em- bryonen fur fortplanzungsmedizinische Massnahmen in zahlreichen Landern. Der Staatskanzlei des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen sei herzlich dafur gedankt, dass sie die Untersuchung angeregt hat. Mannheim, im Juli 2002 Jochen Taupitz Inhaltsubersicht Einleitung 1 Australien 7 Belgien . 21 Danemark . 41 Finnland 51 Frankreich 57 Grossbritannien 67 Irland 87 Israel 89 Italien 105 Japan 119 Kanada 129 Luxemburg 137 Niederlande 141 Norwegen 149 OEsterreich 153 PortugaL 163 Schweden 169 VIII Inhalt Schweiz 175 Spanien 197 Sud-Korea 209 USA 211 Zusammenfassende Auswertung der wesentlichen Ergebnisse aus den Berichtslandern . 221 Anhang Stellungnahme der Zentralen Ethikkommission bei der Bundesarztekammer zur Stammzellforschung vom 19. 6. 2002 233 Inhaltsverzeichnis Einleitung 1 I. Problemstellung I I. Das Menschenrechtsubereinkommen zur Biomedizin des Europarates und das Zusatzprotokoll zum Verbot des Klonens 3 I. Funktion und Regelungscharakter. . 3 2. Regelung der Embryonenforschung . . 4 3. Verbot des Klonens 5 Australien 7 I. Einleitung 7 11. Die bundesstaatlichen Regelungen 7 I. Der Gene Technology Act 2000 7 2. Die Regulierungs- und Kontrollinstitutionen 8 a) The National Health and Medical Research Council. . . 8 b) Die Komitees und der Foerderungsfond l0 3. Die Ethikrichtlinie zur Technologie der assistierten Reproduktion 11 111. Die Regelungen in den Staaten 13 I. Victoria (Vic) 13 2.