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...more than 130,000 caribou of the Porcupine herd, which migrates each spring onto the coastal plain to calve. These caribou are at the heart of the environmentalists' case against drilling. In late May, the animals arrive on the plain after traveling 400 miles around the mountains, to give birth far from their predators: the eagles, wolves and grizzlies that live principally in the mountains. After calving, they forage on the rich greenery that springs up in the 24-hour sunshine. As new snow approaches, they return to the forests on the south slopes 400 miles away, where they find...
Some have responded to this question by citing a child's right to an "open future," a right that is frustrated once parents exercise genetic control. To have their health, looks and perhaps even personalities decided before birth supposedly reduces our children's freedom--it violates their identity, changing what our children truly are. But to speak of genetic engineering as restricting a child's freedom is contradictory: there is no ghostly pre-conception "potential child" whose free will to exist must be respected. Basing identity on genes would represent the worst kind of identity politics--identities should...
...road in two weeks. Nevertheless, Harvard gave its two sellout crowds heartfelt performances, proving that the Crimson has the potential not only to compete with but to outplay the league's best. The second half of the season could be wild and crazy, as Harvard looks to earn a birth in the NCAA Tournament for the first time since...
...Plan B, or the morning-after pill, is not the same as the "abortion pill," RU-486, which is used to terminate an existing pregnancy without surgical intervention. The morning-after pill is essentially a combination of a certain type of birth-control pills that proponents say interrupts the chain of events leading up to a pregnancy. It works only within a very brief time frame following unprotected sex or sexual assaults, but provides women with a safe, virtually side effect-free way to insure against pregnancy. In the unlikely event that the pill fails and a pregnancy occurs anyway...
...focusing instead on the blighted emotional landscape of her characters. Chief among them is Sonia Kurisu, the youngest daughter of a Japanese-American family living in Hilo. After a fraught childhood, Sonia stumbles through addictions to drugs and the men who provide them and undergoes three abortions before giving birth to an autistic...