Word: cohen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pasted across the cover of the most recent issue of The New Republic, this so-called ethical dilemma has been making headlines nationwide ever since Washington Postcolumnist Richard Cohen wrote about the issue in early September. Apparently, many Washington jewelers have chosen not to admit young black men, and, according to Cohen, that's just fine. After all, these people commit an inordinately large percentage of robberies, and business is business. It's not racism, just common sense...
...seems that Richard Cohen is not alone. Dipping into the "respectable" citizen pool at large, The New Republic asked a handful of people, some of them Black, how they would respond to the jewelers' dilemma. While not all of them were as unabashed as Cohen, most of them took the jewelers' side...
...received unfair treatment with the help of a few statisticians. In 1867, insurance companies tried to end the sale of fire insurance to Jews after it was determined that the proportion of Jewish fires in insured buildings was much greater than that of Christian fires. I wonder what Richard Cohen would have said about that...
...MORE frightening than the particular offensive statements articulated by Cohen and his cohorts is the fact that his logic can be used to support almost any racist policy. Real estate agents can refuse to show Blacks apartments in white neighborhoods because property rates go down when they move in. School desegregation can be rejected because of the danger to white kids. Some people might even argue that search and seizure prohibitions should be relaxed for Blacks because of their high crime rates. After all, crime prevention is important, not individual rights...
While little is known about how growth factors work, there is no doubt of their importance. Doctors at Harvard Medical School use EGF to grow skin for grafting onto burn patients. Other growth factors may hold important clues about cancer and Alzheimer's disease. Cohen seemed surprised by the Nobel award. "You just keep on trying to find things," he said. "I'm very happy that the work we've been doing the last 25 to 30 years turned out to be important...