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...grow a new animal (human or otherwise). Even the cells that slough off your gums when you brush your teeth could be used to make a whole new person. Of course, the most virulent opponents of cloning will not soon want to ban tooth-brushing. But they insist that the potential for life must be protected and oppose cloning human embryos for research purposes, even if the DNA comes not from a sperm and an egg but from an everyday skin cell. The potential for life found in normal skin cells, however, is of less concern. This inconsistency shows...
...national affairs I don’t know how to write first drafts that work. I don’t know how to hide my nervousness when I’m interviewing someone important. I don’t know how to pronounce a lot of words that I insist on using in conversation (until yesterday, I thought portentous was pronounced pôr-ten’shus, not pôr-ten’tus). And I don’t know how to match my shirts with my ties...
...paid enough attention to the developing threat in Iraq. After all, Saddam is evil and dangerous and may, for all we know, be close to developing the most devastating of weapons. Bush’s rhetoric may exaggerate the Iraqi threat, but he may be right to insist that the U.S. and the world should do something about...
...researchers insist on investigating obesity as if it were a subject for The X-Files? Too much emphasis is placed on obesity as a disease, with researchers debating the role played by hormones, neuronal activity and genetics. Instead of pinning our hopes on finding the chemical factor causing obesity, we should be looking at how Americans' eating habits have changed in the past 50 years. Today we have more opportunities to eat, more food available and larger portions. But the big question is, Why do we feel the need to engage in such conspicuous consumption? Americans need to take responsibility...
Some students insist the storage situation has deteriorated. Leverett House Committee Co-Chair Michal Y. Spechler ’03 says the storage problems were “much worse” than in past years...