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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...record thumps its chest and declares itself to be already perfect - with zero room for improvement - it is hard to know whether to laugh or cry. However, it doesn't follow from this that we will necessarily improve things if we start mucking around with our genes. We could make things worse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Future of Human Enhancement | 9/9/2009 | See Source »

...most persuasive for me personally is comparing the best times of my life with the worst times. The difference is pretty big. So I ask, Why can't it be like the best times more often? Then I observe that there are all kinds of biological constraints that make this difficult or impossible. Some form of enhancement would be needed to mitigate these constraints...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Future of Human Enhancement | 9/9/2009 | See Source »

...Capuano said, according to the Boston Globe. “No other candidate being mentioned or already announced more closely mirrors Ted Kennedy’s position on important issues of war and peace.” Capuano said obtaining papers was “the next step towards making a decision regarding candidacy,” and added that he would make a formal announcement next week. Taking out nomination papers, the first major step towards launching a Senate run, requires potential candidates to obtain voter signatures. Two other Democrats, Mass. Attorney General Martha Coakley and U.S. Representative Stephen...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Capuano Considers Senate | 9/9/2009 | See Source »

...same time, fasting also provides a fascinating form of reassurance, if only because our discomfort is self-imposed. As such, we can readily take it away, but yet choose not to. It is this ability to make such a choice that defines who we are as human beings. Indeed, what other creature acts in a manner that initially seems so detrimental to its own well-being, with the sole purpose of achieving a higher, perhaps not readily comprehensible goal...

Author: By Bilal A. Siddiqui | Title: Days of Deprivation | 9/9/2009 | See Source »

...have her on the forward line.”UC Davis continued to fight for its opportunities, finally getting on the board with under eight minutes to play. Ellre Ancheta fed the ball to Lindsey Valadez off a penalty corner, and Valadez beat Crimson keeper Cynthia Tassapoulous to make the score 4-1. Tassapoulous had five saves on the evening, four of which came in the second half, which saw the Aggies take an 8-6 advantage in shots.“Cynthia is playing really well,” Goodman-Bacon said. “She?...

Author: By Kate Leist, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Field Hockey Topples Aggies | 9/9/2009 | See Source »

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