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...encourages, while recognizing the need for privacy and quiet spaces. Our plans must recognize the place the Houses hold in our history even as they clear the way for future growth—both personal and physical. Our living spaces must support our ambitions for scholarship even as they foster our students’ health—physical, emotional, and mental...
...harmful effects that can be avoided by flocculating. This helps explain how fermentation works. But another important application of his research initially escaped Verstrepen. “I was presenting this work here at Harvard and in the audience was an evolutionary biologist by the name of Kevin Foster,” Verstrepen said. “He started jumping around and crying out that this is a ‘green beard gene.’” The “green beard gene” was initially proposed by Oxford evolutionary biologist William D. Hamilton...
...testimony over whether any evidence supports the state's contention that children are put at risk when raised by gay parents. The answer, said Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Cindy S. Lederman, is not at all: "The Department's position is that homosexuality is immoral. Yet, homosexuals may be lawful foster parents in Florida and care for our most fragile children who have been abused, neglected and abandoned. As such, the exclusion forbidding homosexuals to adopt children does not further the public morality interest it seeks to combat...
...Iowa is the only state in the country where we have an open marriage case pending before a court," Chrisler said. (The Iowa high court will hear oral arguments in December.) "So we expect the battle to move now to issues like gay adoption and foster parenting, There isn't anywhere left for the other side to go on marriage." (See a video from a gay wedding...
...anti-gay-marriage campaign. Chrisler and others contend that the arguments against gay adoption will be more difficult to make than those against gay marriage. "It's not nearly as divisive an issue as the definition of marriage," she says. "For the most part, people think of adoption and foster-parenting as children's issues. What's best for the child...