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Civilization hangs on the Kantian principle that human beings are to be treated as ends and not means. So much depends on that principle because there is no crime that cannot be, that has not been, committed in the name of the future against those who inhabit the present. Medical experimentation, which invokes the claims of the future, necessarily turns people into means. That is why the Nuremberg Code on human experimentation (established after World War II in reaction to the ghastly Nazi experiments on prisoners) declares that for research to be ethical the subject must give consent. The person...
NASA's next great goal is a familiar one: to put men on the moon. Only this time, NASA wants to keep them there to inhabit a lunar colony. Former NASA Administrator Thomas Paine predicts that by the year 2025, the first "humans will be calling themselves "natives of the moon...
...course, these "strong" women are often hard to take seriously, given the baroque fantasy worlds they inhabit. Moreover, the strongest among them embody one of the culture's most retrograde stereotypes: the conniving bitch. Such roles are an "outlet for women and their fantasies of power," suggests Tania Modleski, professor of film and literature at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. "But these fantasies are also negated at the same time, because it's not right for good women to lust for power. So they are put in the person of a villainess." Most feminists, however, seem...
Little short of a revelation will startle the quiet scholars who inhabit Andover Hall, but this summer came pretty close. The Harvard Divinity School is in the midst of an unprecedented turnover in Faculty, and now is looking for seven full-time professors...
Actors love to appear in this kind of play, whether it is a tattered valentine to eccentricity like The Time of Your Life or a dopers' tone poem like The Connection or this dated, indifferent travelogue through the seventh circle of hell. An actor can both inhabit his character and stand outside it, flashing signals to the audience that say, "I'm not really this lowlife, but it's fun to pretend." Perhaps that is why the audience at off-Broadway's spacious new Minetta Lane Theater, where Balm moved last week after a successful...