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...believe that God made current life-forms from scratch. The ID movement takes no position on how life got here, and many adherents believe in evolution. Some even grant a role to the evolutionary engine posited by Darwin: natural selection. They just deny that natural selection alone could have driven life all the way from pond scum...
...well-being of the child," says Erik Parens, a research associate at the Hastings Center--and that includes the couple's capacity to function as parents. It would be hard for a woman with such a medical history to adopt. But the reproduction business is virtually unregulated and profit driven, with the ethics improvised at best. "There is a need for general oversight," argues Parens, "instead of the free-for-all we now have...
...country's 47 million consumers has grown from about 50% of GDP in 1987 to 58%. With more than 1 million service sector jobs added since 2000, it looks like Korea will be the first Asian economy to make the leap from an industrial-led to service-driven domestic economy...
...Even the most bullish Korea watchers say the country still has much to do to streamline its corporations. For decades, Korea's economy was driven largely by government policy. Today, there's a laissez-faire shift and the adoption of free-market principles. But big family-run chaebol are still uncomfortable with the notion that shareholders should have a say in the company; transparency and disclosure still fall short of world standards. Corporate debt is still too high and better bankruptcy laws?now in the planning stage?are needed to speed the disposal of unprofitable companies. Unfortunately there are still...
Both Tauscher and moderator David Nyham ’62, a former columnist and associate editor of The Boston Globe, blamed the media for its lack of responsibility in political coverage, which they said has dwindled and become more scandal-driven in recent years...