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...might have reason to worry about unequal access to enhancement, but it is unclear that greater restrictiveness is the right way to combat this problem. When only athletes willing to bend the rules and students with the money to get their hands on an Adderall prescription can benefit, then inequality results. But if we instead work to make enhancement available to all, we create a level playing field—only this one is several rungs higher than the old, unenhanced version. (This logic led the equality-loving John Rawls to conclude that genetic engineering was a boon...
...combat shortfalls in space and size, the Renewal Report recommends maximizing the number of private bedrooms, reducing the prevalence of suites housing more than five students, and eliminating large group hallway bathrooms...
...While many military experts remain opposed to a tally, there does seem to be a growing acceptance of the judicious citing of body counts to combat Taliban propaganda that shows only U.S. deaths and civilian casualties. "Publication of this information is part of the information campaign, and I think it's justified," says Peter Mansoor, a retired Army colonel who served as a top aide to General David Petraeus in Iraq from February 2007 to May 2008. "But I don't know that I'd go so far as to do every single death," says Mansoor, who now teaches military...
...That's assuming people in Afghanistan will believe what they're being told by a foreign army. And that the return of body counts doesn't have the opposite effect, causing Americans to begin questioning the underpinnings of a war that has lasted for nearly a decade of inconclusive combat and resulted in nearly 700 U.S. deaths...
...efficient as European autos are now - they're just a start. Despite the positive early signs from the White House, some greens still fret about the future and wonder whether Obama's preference for cooperation over confrontation means he will back away from the truly radical action needed to combat climate change...