Word: methods
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...unnerved by your referring to Snuppy as an invention. The cloning technique is remarkable, without a doubt, but I believe it is wrong to classify a cloned creature as an invention. Doing so somehow implies that a clone is different and inferior to other living creatures merely because the method of creation has changed. A clone is just another member of its species...
...article about a new method of screening fetuses for Down syndrome in the first trimester [Nov. 21], TIME asked, "Is a life with the syndrome worth living?" We pride ourselves on our tolerance. Yet encouragement to terminate less-than-perfect pregnancies will surely lead to more discrimination against the living handicapped. Can we praise ourselves as a nondiscriminatory society when we question whether people who are not the most highly functioning are worth saving--let alone worth tolerating or protecting...
...revelation of Robin’s true identity, which forces Richard to give up Rose and submit to the bullying of his dead relatives, who emerge from portraits to browbeat their less-than-imposing descendant. It’s all resolved in the end, of course. Does the method even matter? The entire story is mechanism for getting from song to song far more than the songs are a way to advance the story...
...least 30 to 40 students. Harvard’s seminars have “a more profound focus on the individual interests of students,” he says. And, in Berlin, professors occasionally try hard to deter students from taking their classes to prevent overcrowding, Schmidgen adds.One method of deterring enrollment, he says he observed, is talking rapidly about things that students don’t understand. Schmidgen also explains that while Harvard professors are expected to carefully plan for their courses, German professors often “walk in and basically improvise” in lecture classes...
...posted on the website in a timely manner. The website’s state of disrepair comes despite the fact that the current UC secretary ran on a platform emphasizing his ability to maintain the website properly. Thus, the UC’s most effective, simple, and important method of keeping the student body informed is nonexistent. The best way for the student body to make an informed vote for UC president is to be educated about the tickets as a whole, not just about their self-styled running platforms. If students cannot see what positions the candidates have taken...