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With the help of his team of scientists, Ruvkun—whose results were published in last Thursday’s issue of the journal Nature??deactivated about 305 of the genes in the experiment, resulting in “thin and happy” bioengineered worms...
...their economies can absorb and promote linguistic and cultural integration, the European Union wants to deal with racism by criminalizing “hate speech.” On Nov. 7 the Council of Europe adopted a measure that bans “acts of a racist and xenophobic nature?? committed online. While not promoting speech codes, the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance issues rhetorical condemnations of xenophobia and sends representatives to flagellate themselves in front of Europe’s former colonial subjects at events like the World Conference against Racism in Durbin...
...pleased the department decided to reexamine this issue amongst its entire faculty because there was clearly widespread disagreement. We hope next time the Staff embraces controversial speakers of this nature??who have much to add to both the academic and political discourse—instead of obstinately plugging its ears...
...path to popularity. Deanna took both Moral Reasoning 22, “Justice” and Literature and Arts B-51, “First Nights: Five Performance Premieres” her freshman fall, while Krish discovered the joys of Science B-29, “Evolution of Human Nature?? and Social Analysis 10, “Principles of Economics.” Monique, on the other hand, says that “the biggest classes I had were my pre-meds that year” but quickly made up for this by taking “First...
...psychotropic drugs such as Ritalin and Prozac. His principle arguments against practices such as human reproductive cloning don’t rely on pointing out the serious risk of disease in the clone. Rather, he opposes genetic engineering on the grounds that it might change “human nature?? so drastically that it could “have possibly malign consequences for liberal democracy and the nature of politics itself.” He derives his views from Aristotle and the related concept of “natural rights...