Word: leveler
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...feel about that? You write about that in the book. I think it's a perfectly fine option for people who choose it. I really do. The people who have it over and over and over again, that's something different. That's on a much deeper level than saying, You know what? I've never liked my nose. I think I'm going to fix it. Or, My boobs are down to my waist. I think I'll get them nice and perky again...
...We’re asking Harvard to be more forward, to participate,” said Michael F. Glavin, Deputy Director of Institutional Development, at a recent neighborhood meeting. “I don’t think the level of participation was ever anything close to what it should be going forward...
...plan is notable for containing a set of specific date targets and an organized timeline that lead to completely clean electricity in only 10 years. While the plan is ambitious, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu and President Obama should consider adopting the resolution at the federal level, assuming it passes in the Massachusetts House. It is encouraging that the “green movement” has risen to a position of necessary prominence in public discourse, and we are proud that Massachusetts (and Boston in particular) has taken a lead in expanding the national awareness on these crucial issues...
...screening (a 90-100 percent chance of the disease affecting the child) were violated in this case. As advances allow us to screen for smaller and smaller susceptibilities, firm boundaries must be drawn to keep science in check. Policymakers must consider the range of genes that cause the same level of susceptibility as BRCA1 and evaluate the implications of permitting such extensive use of pre-natal screening. Ultimately, a level of susceptibility for which it is permissible to screen must be determined, and this level should remain fixed. Such limits may be arbitrary and may eventually deny screening for BRCA1...
...Furthermore, extensive use of pre-natal screening presents a worrying situation in which those with wealth are able to purchase an objectively higher level of descendants than others. Selection of the most attractive traits presents a significant genetic advantage to the wealthy—more so than simply being able to afford a higher standard of medical treatment—and threatens to irrevocably exaggerate the divide between rich and poor...