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...BRITAIN Human Clones Ban Britain became the first country to announce a ban on human reproductive cloning. Health Secretary Alan Milburn said the government would enact legislation within months to outlaw the practice, but would dedicate more funding to other genetic research. Human cloning is already banned by the Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority, which has the power to grant licenses, but the new move would create a permanent statutory ban. Milburn said the government would invest another $43 million in genetic screening, enabling Britain to offer free testing to women with an inherited risk of breast cancer...
...future, whether it be through blocking group size, the selection of Harvard’s new president or the ability of its workers to make ends meet without working two or three jobs. And, most importantly, the living wage campaign is about convincing a resistant University to enact much-needed change...
...Harvard doesn’t have to enact a living wage—Harvard, and only Harvard, has ultimate control over internal matters such as its workers’ pay. And most of the time, Harvard does whatever it pleases. But as a supposedly nonprofit educational institution—and the richest, most visible and powerful one in the world at that—Harvard has the opportunity to genuinely take care of its workers in a way that companies in the free market usually cannot. By enacting a living wage, the University can begin to become an ideological leader...
...Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56 (D-Mass.) took advantage of a Washington stop on University President Neil L. Rudenstine’s “farewell tour” to meet privately with the president to urge him to enact a living wage...
...effect, the staff has touted the noble values of liberal education—of rational deliberation, of open dialogue, of mutual respect—in defense of an administration that has undermined those values in its refusal to engage with students and workers—let alone enact a living wage...