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...absurd. Even a cursory look at human history reveals there is also much in human nature that is horrifically bad. When a species with our track record thumps its chest and declares itself to be already perfect - with zero room for improvement - it is hard to know whether to laugh or cry. However, it doesn't follow from this that we will necessarily improve things if we start mucking around with our genes. We could make things worse...
...particulates, in the order of 150 micrograms per cubic meter, but notes that on many days, cities such as Los Angeles and Pittsburgh and Detroit often reach these levels. (The Environmental Protection Agency deems anything between 151 and 200 micrograms per cubic meter to be unhealthy.) But it's hard for the average city denizen to know when particulate levels reach that unhealthy zone. In fact, the 80 volunteers in the study, who breathed ambient city air or filtered air in chambers, couldn't tell which air was which; particulate-loaded air is still 10 to 100 times less dense...
...case was no different. That said, we do recognize that in our role as distributors we are responsible for the content that runs in our newspaper. And though we did seek to intervene in this case, we failed to see the process through to its conclusion. We will work hard to avoid such lapses in communication in the future, and hope our readers will accept that yesterday’s error was a logistical failure and not a philosophical...
...athletic department, the Harvard Mixed Martial Arts Club became the Harvard Self Defense Club. The club does not champion brute violence or mindless “fighting”, but, according to Eggers, can guarantee “high intensity cardio training and a mix of weights, bodyweight exercises, hard drills, speedbag, pull ups, and jumping jacks...
...weeks, hard-line elements in Iran's government have been calling for the arrest of the country's opposition leaders, especially defeated presidential candidates Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi. Now it appears that the government has raised the ante. On Sept. 8, Iranian authorities raided offices connected to the two men and arrested top opposition aides...