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...disappointment we had this year came with inexperience, and that will lessen dramatically next year," Delaney-Smith said. "We all learned a lot more by losing than had we won. That's what it's all about--isn't this a college, and isn't this an education...
...disappointment we had this year came with inexperience, and that will lessen dramatically next year," Delaney-Smith said. "We all learned a lot more by losing than had we won. That's what it's all about--isn't this a college, and isn't this an education...
...trying to take whatever proactive[actions] we can to lessen that," he said
These are precisely the moral issues that the philosopher Peter Unger addresses in his recent book, Living High and Letting Die. Unger comes down firmly on the side of contributing. As he writes, "Is it really seriously wrong not to do anything to lessen distant suffering; or is it quite all right to do nothing?....I argue that the first of these thoughts is correct and that, far from being just barely false, the second conflicts strongly with the truth about morality...
...health-food stores and in foods like yogurt. So far, the best results have been seen in the treatment of diarrhea, particularly in children. But researchers are also looking into the possibility that beneficial bacteria may thwart vaginal infections in women, prevent some food allergies in children and lessen symptoms of Crohn's disease, a relatively rare but painful gastrointestinal disorder...