Word: favority
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Instead, these scientists have decided to rig the contest in their favor by changing the ground rules of discussion. They cite the stringency of their own precautions. They tell you that the p-3 facility is safe for all levels of the work they plan to pursue. But, as Richard C. Lewontin '50, professor of Biology, warned last week, we shouldn't be surprised if some overly ambitious scientists does experiments that should be classified p-4 in the p-3 facility. (p-4 work is very dangerous and needs a far more protective facility, like that used in biological...
...before last week's meeting, it was clear that the Kremlin would fail in its goals. Since the Communists' only hope in Western Europe involves sharing power with democratic parties, many leaders-notably the French, Italians and Spaniards-have scuttled the Marxist "dictatorship of the proletariat" in favor of some measure of heretical pluralism. Although Moscow wanted a strong ideological denunciation of Peking in the platform, the Yugoslavs and the Rumanians demanded that China not be mentioned. Then, Soviet-sponsored drafts of the preconference communique were purged of such ritual assertions that Communist parties "share identical objectives...
...court now complained that under such narrow laws all those convicted of a given crime became "members of a faceless, undifferentiated mass to be subjected to the blind infliction of the death penalty." The new ruling rejected that approach in favor of leaving leeway for juries and judges to choose within limits when death is or is not a proper punishment. Such laws, said the court, should indicate the sort of aggravating or mitigating circumstances to be taken into account before sentencing-with rigorous appellate review if death is imposed...
...executions are immediately in prospect, but the Governors of Florida, Georgia and Texas are all known to favor capital punishment. Jack Greenberg, director-counsel of the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund, was disconsolate about the court's action and pledged to continue fighting for each condemned convict. But he admitted that "we don't hold out much hope." The death sentence has not been carried out in the U.S. sAice 1967.* That moratorium may not last through its tenth year...
...battle between humans and bugs goes on, with some hope that man will continue to maintain an uneasy detente with the insect world for centuries to come. But for the long run, the odds are still heavily in favor of the insect. For, as W.J. Holland's The Moth Book poetically prophesies, it is likely that "when all cities shall have long been dead and crumbled into dust, and all life shall be on the very last verge of extinction on this globe; then, on a bit of lichen ... shall be seated a tiny insect, preening its antennae...