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While popular opinion certainly does influence conceptions of legitimacy in the democratic process, it does not grant moral force to gay marriage. Rather, gay marriage ought to be recognized as its own substantive fundamental right, a right grounded in our nation’s conception of equality—and it’s the duty of the courts to uphold those rights when a legislature fails to. While we are unequivocally glad that the New Jersey Court unanimously agreed on the equality of rights, we cannot help but lament its refusal to make same-sex marriage equal in both...
Where does that leave old-fashioned movie charm? Waiting for someone to bring Cary Grant back to life...
...higher. In the past few weeks alone, reports have come out in Cell, Nature and the Journal of Neuroscience implicating the mitochondria as factors in diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. Indeed, says Dr. Vamsi Mootha, a Harvard Medical School researcher who won a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant in 2004 for his work on mitochondria, "it looks like they're really important in diabetes, hypertension and many other common diseases--even in the aging process itself...
...crowded into a community forum in Florence with Colorado's Democratic Senator Ken Salazar, who had just toured ADX to investigate the security situation. A few days later, Republican Senator Wayne Allard made the same trip. Fremont County sheriff Jim Beicker, who is still waiting for a Homeland Security grant to upgrade his department's radio system, expressed his concerns about the flimsy fence surrounding the prison complex and staffing shortages at ADX. "I want to see these issues fixed," he said. "I don't want to have to lay awake at night and worry about problems at the prison...
While this term’s Dudley House allocation was far too high, the allocation system the UC already uses for the rest of the College’s Houses could also use a bit of tweaking. Currently, it grants every HoCo $4,500 per semester for expenses related to house life. This money goes towards funding social events, such as stein clubs, that benefit the community of students residing in the House. Nevertheless, since some Houses have more residents than others, students in larger Houses are already receiving less money per student than students in houses with smaller populations...