Word: concerned
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...this reason there is much concern over the low numbers of minorities nationally who are registered with the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP...
During the past ten year, representatives from AEO met with House masters and House committees to decide on the best places to install boxes. Although Rosen said most masters were supportive of the measures, a few expressed concern that students might abuse the boxes by taking too many condoms...
Fourth, according to The Crimson, "One high-ranking official expressed concern that Berkowitz 'has become obsessed with this [case]' and is discrediting himself' by harping on the Harvard setback rather than moving onto another institution." I am touched that this "high-ranking official," who for some reason refuses to disclose his or her identity, has become concerned for my future. But I can't help wondering about the quality of concern, to say nothing of the purported access to my inner state, inasmuch as no member of the University administration has uttered so much as a single word...
...science that produced Dolly also gave rise to disquieting questions that still rattle ethicists and policymakers. Managing editor Walter Isaacson met Wilmut at the annual Forstmann Little seminar in Aspen, Colo., last September and engaged him in a lively conversation on the ethics of cloning. "Wilmut expressed his concern that the breakthrough he had wrought would be used by others with no thoughtful moral or legal guidelines," says Isaacson, who promptly recruited Wilmut to write the essay on the subject that appears in this week's issue...
Another major concern is privacy. If screening reveals all the faults our flesh may be heir to, can that information be kept secret, so that it won't be used by potential employers or insurers to deny us a job or health coverage? Or, if we let our imaginations fly, by still other types of snoops--for example, an overzealous father eager to check out the genes of a potential son-in-law, just as he once might have checked the suitor's credit rating...