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...many citizens in the West have begun to detect what might be called the Fallacy of Progress. For a century or more, "progress" in penal thinking has signified increasingly humane treatment for criminals, as if punishment were in itself a vestigial barbarity. But if progress implies a steady mitigation of punishment, then at some point "punishment" must logically lose its meaning, crossing over to become something else. Besides, not many people are pitilessly marched to jail today for stealing loaves of bread. Poverty may breed crime, but few thieves steal because they are starving in a society of food stamps...
...fish run. Then, without warning, the line slackened. The broadbill was streaking to the surface. He rose out of the water and fell back with a splash we could hear but not see. The glow of the Cyalume marked him 100 yds. to starboard. We could detect only the eerie green light, which now began tearing across the inky water and around our stern. The swordfish was encircling the boat with line. Mann cranked furiously on the reel, trying to take up slack while Peacock revved the engines, and the boat leaped forward...
...Stuart Orkin, a research fellow in Pediatrics, and Dr. David Nathan '51, Robert A. Stranahan Professor of, Pediatrics, along with other scientists from Yale University and Haceteppe University in Turkey, made the discovery, which enables doctors to detect certain genetic diseases in unborn babies...
...theoretically possible to detect such illnesses as sickle-cell anemia and cystic fibrosis," Orkin said. "All you have to find out is what to look for in the gene...
Presently the method of identification can detect two types of anemia, alphathalassemia and beta-delta-thalassemia. The most common type of anemia in the country, beta-thalassemia (Cooley's anemia) cannot be detected...