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It’s hard to miss Harvard Right to Life’s updated ‘Natalie’ posters, which are now printed in color and depict a growing fetus, already in its eleventh week. This week, we’re told, the fetus has acquired finger and toe-prints. The message behind the posters is clear—fetuses develop during gestation, becoming increasingly “human-like” until the ninth month when they, well, look just exactly like a newborn baby...
...tinkering with the genome? What would he have had to say about the creation of genetically engineered organisms like the rapidly growing salmon we are raising in pens along our coasts? Would he have shed a tear for the late Dolly? Or would he have wagged a scolding finger at her scientist creators? And how would he have regarded the development of new plant species through gene-splicing - those ?frankenfoods? that raised European blood pressure about U.S. policies long before George Bush started talking tough about Saddam Hussein...
Fundamentally, however, students should not have to resort to signing a petition to get the Faculty’s attention. It is shocking that the administration has not lifted a finger to assess widespread student opinion on Kirby’s preregistration plan, which would so deeply affect undergraduate education. Defying the wishes of members of the Committee on Undergraduate Education, it did not even give the committee the opportunity to vote on the plan before it was placed on the docket for a Faculty vote. Kirby should have conducted a survey of all undergraduates to gauge student opinion before...
Jordan: Yeah, I was in a kibbutz in Israel this summer near a dairy farm and there were baby calves who had this oral fixation and who would suck on your finger for a long time because they longed for their mothers...
Saenz’s roommate, Anindita Deb ’06, remembers how shocked she was when Saenz revealed her glittery secret. “First I saw a picture of her and Dave, and then I saw the ring on her finger,” she says. “It was a couple of weeks into the first semester before she told us she was engaged...