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...University moratorium on travel to areas affected by the flu-like illness may in some cases require a 10-day quarantine for students returning from these regions...
What has made the case against capital punishment so difficult to argue, however, is the policy’s utter insignificance in practical terms. As of last Tuesday’s Texas execution of Juan Chavez, only 847 convicted murderers have been put to death since the 10-year moratorium on executions was broken 26 years ago. Death is used only sparingly as a form of punishment and has a minimal effect on prison populations and state treasuries. Indifference is indeed the first natural reaction to the death of less than 1000 of the country’s most vile...
...University lifted its SARS-related moratorium on travel to Singapore yesterday following the advice of the Center for Disease Control, according to the University’s website. The decision comes almost a week after the University called off its travel ban to Toronto, Canada, on the recommendation of the World Health Organization. The University originally banned travel to these areas last month as cases of SARS spread around the world. The moratorium on travel to China, including Hong Kong, and Taiwan remains in place...
...what the presidents’ views are concerning it...I think that they realized that what they did was flawed,” Kauble said. “I would advocate that the moratorium be completely lifted...
...ethical - simply because of unease about where it might lead? Should we go slow in some areas, or leave some doors of possibility permanently closed? Should we restrict science's traditional freedom of inquiry and international openness? In 1975, prominent molecular biologists did just that by proposing a moratorium on what were then novel types of gene splicing experiments. This moratorium soon came to seem unduly cautious, but that doesn't mean that it was unwise at the time, since the risk was then genuinely uncertain. But it would be far harder to achieve anything similar today. The research community...