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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mazariegos denies that she touched Kelly. The University report concluded that there had been a "use of force," which was neither "acceptable or defensible." Mazariegos was fired...

Author: By M. DOUGLAS Omalley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mail Center Troubles Highlight 'Casual' Problem | 11/9/1999 | See Source »

...council believes this policy creates "an environment in which homophobia is seen as an acceptable belief which should be accommodated." Now, some first-years who request room changes may indeed be homophobes: they may bear an irrational fear or hate of gays. Some, one guesses, neither hate nor fear gays but would feel uncomfortable living with a gay student nonetheless. And some are probably devout Christians whose faith grounds their opposition to homosexuality, promiscuity, and the like. But the council bills, which fairly represent recent campus dialogue on this issue, classify all under the genus "homophobia," in effect equating Christians...

Author: By Hugh P. Liebert, | Title: Mere Tolerance | 11/9/1999 | See Source »

...Neither of these explanations need trouble us. We are not going to use cloning to make the whole of the next generation from one individual (though in the 1930s several eminent geneticists thought that when IVF became available, lots of people would rush out to choose prominent men such as Lenin as a father--which just goes to show how wrong geneticists can be about the future). Also, genetic mutations accumulate much too slowly to worry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Be Still Need To Have Sex? | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

...money in the world would have no meaning," said Aristotle Onassis, who should know. Or, as Henry Kissinger put it, "power is the great aphrodisiac." So where would humans--and human civilization--be without sex? Probably back with the aphids and dandelions, I suspect, procreating effortlessly but building neither empires nor cathedrals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Be Still Need To Have Sex? | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

...insulation, all technologies currently available on the world market. Americans could trade in their notoriously gas-swilling SUVs for sporty new 80-m.p.g. hybrid-electric cars. Better yet: hydrogen-powered fuel-cell cars, expected in showrooms by 2004. Since their only exhaust is water vapor, fuel-cell cars produce neither smog nor global warming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will We Run Out Of Gas? | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

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