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...Iraq.” Panelist Cass R. Sunstein ’75, professor of jurisprudence at the University of Chicago Law School, says he was “puzzling a lot” over another scenario offered during the discussion: is it ethical to kill a pig and harvest its organs to save five human lives? “What about 100 pigs to save 1 person?” says Sunstein, In the end, the panel left the audience to draw its own conclusions. FM offers this: Don’t torture kittens to compel TFs to reveal final...
...well, cunningly leading his captors to believe he possessed magical powers by showing off his compass--How does the needle move inside the rock?--and, of course, firing off gunpowder, which the natives took from him and vowed to plant the following spring so they too might reap a harvest of powdered fury...
...colonists were ill-prepared for life in Virginia and, at least initially, had no crops to harvest. So Kelso was not surprised to dig up the goods they offered the Indians in exchange for food. Among them: Venetian glass beads (blue ones were preferred), sheet copper (a commodity prized by the Powhatan, who wore pendants and other ornaments fashioned from the reddish metal), European coins (useless in Virginia) and metal tools (the Indians had ones made only from stone, wood, bone and shell). By the 1660s, when the English had established a number of settlements in the area, the Indians...
...ordered and sat down--only to see Moyo sit at an adjacent table. I beckoned to him, but, head down, he demurred. A man asked to share my table and introduced himself as a manager for the Christian relief organization World Vision. I asked him about this year's harvest. "There's zero," he said. "No crop. Millions of hungry people, and just our maize sacks to feed them...
...Whitewash signs reading "Brezneves," (Brezhnev's Village, after the Soviet leader) appeared on Zajecov walls overnight, and neighboring villagers refused potatoes "the boys" had helped to harvest. But since the fall of communism, the potato fields gave way to grasslands, and the locals are reluctant to talks about this less than glorious chapter of their village's past...