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...Fine Performance The region's filmmakers score big at this year's Cannes festival, winning four of the top prizes (6/5/2000) Back to China In the martial-arts drama Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Ang Lee and a cast of big stars struggle with moviemaking on the mainland (11/29/99) PHOTO ESSAY On Set With Ang Lee Elaborate sets, derring-do and big stars are all found in the martial-arts drama "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon...
...better argument is provided for the immorality of genetic engineering than the revulsion it inspires. Kass, indeed, titles his essay "The Wisdom of Repugnance" and attacks genetic engineering as evil because it is unsettling. But moral theory should be more than a summation of the circumstances under which one gets the willies. Genetic engineering is indeed "inhumane" if we think only of those things to which humans have historically been accustomed--but then so is the railroad, wearing clothes and refraining from killing one another. Reasons are required to decide which new practices are acceptable and which beyond the pale...
...weeks ago Lehigh University professor Peter Beidler received a surprising e-mail from a teacher at Nanjing University in China. She told Beidler that "Why I Teach," an essay he wrote in 1985, is mandatory reading for 2 million students each year at 1,900 colleges in China. Beidler thinks the Chinese like the piece because it extols the benefits of public service, but he is realistic about what it means to be a best-selling author there. "The Chinese," he says, "aren't big on copyrights...
...course material. But there is also a considerable degree to which each of these requirements depends heavily on factors outside the course material. One example is writing ability--a weak writer with a strong command of the course material may often receive a lower grade on an essay assignment, compared to a stronger writer with a weaker command of the material. Identification (ID) questions (particularly when the ID's themselves are distributed ahead of time) test sheer memorization more than they evaluate conceptual understanding...
...Such fervor caused Li's handlers to recast the New Year's message. Says New York spokeswoman Gail Rachlin: "The essay is about stepping out and telling of evil, not about creating evil." Such fine-tuning may be too subtle for the thousands of believers who flock to Beijing to voice their protest. Indeed, New York's disowning of the five immolators has bewildered some Falun Gong adherents living in China. "I know that violence is against the spirit of Falun Gong," says a 53-year-old factory worker from Nanjing. "But why don't our foreign friends support...