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...trees, building fires, getting dirty and being outdoors--things that I liked to do. The program also had a moral component, most obvious at the start or end of troop meetings, when we recited the Scout Law: "A scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent...
...fevered work being done, however, science is still far away from the Brave New World vision of engineering a perfect human -- or even a perfect tomato. Much more research is needed before gene therapy becomes commonplace, and many diseases will take decades to conquer, if they can be conquered...
...stable two-parent family. Though some snickered at the President's apparent hypocrisy, Clinton's statements were justified. For people caught in the cultural and economic web of poverty, our public policies need to promote the kinds of behavior that will allow them to pull themselves out. Clinton was brave to talk about the values underlying his recent welfare reform legislation not only because of his own imperfections, but because it is difficult for concerned politicians to address these issues without sliding down the slope of political posturing and rhetoric...
These changes all aim to strengthen the Core Curriculum. Get humanities students into the lab! Force science concentrators to brave Widener! Enough hedging--Harvard must seize the opportunity to expand its students' minds in the most definitive...
...third quarter and only 1.9% in the spring. That pace would be just too fast to keep up, so output is likely to drop back in early 1994 -- but hardly as much as it did early this year. The consensus forecast is 3% in 1994, but a few brave souls are beginning to mutter 3.5%. Which would be no boom, but maybe something better: a pace that could be sustained for a long time, keeping incomes and employment growing without igniting a new surge of inflation (currently running at a 20-year low of 2.8% this year...