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This attitude needs to change. Americans can no longer ignore the G.M. issue. Although there is a shocking dearth of clinical and agricultural testing, the few results we do have don’t look good. Double-blind trials have shown that the StarLink variety of corn, developed by Monsanto, causes allergic reactions in some subjects, while a Royal Society report, commissioned by the British Food Standards Agency, shows that a significant proportion of people who ate genetically modified soybeans had picked up antibiotic resistance from the food...
Social workers tend to place children with couples of the same race. Many mixed race couples meet resistance or at least doubtful glances from friends and relatives. Even in the classroom, students who see themselves as race-blind may waver, on further examination...
...would be wonderful to have a race-blind admissions policy, but the fact is that we do not live in a race-blind society, for better or for worse. So, to implement such a policy today, especially in educational institutions that are the only doorway to a better life for many people of color, is ridiculous. To get rid of affirmative action altogether would be treating the symptom and not the disease. Instead of just calling for minority leaders to cry out against affirmative action and discrimination, whites need to look at their role in solving the problem as well...
...point-based affirmative action admissions system currently in place at the University of Michigan. The Supreme Court’s decision to hear the Michigan case finally allows us to confront the issue of race in college admissions head on and move towards a race-blind university admissions system that truly gives an equal opportunity...
...acceptable under normal circumstances,” Lockman said. “But in middle of a war in Iraq, especially if they attack Israel, there would be panic and one can imagine all sorts of horrible scenarios. The public could countenance this, or the U.S. could turn a blind...