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...Home field advantage is non-existent in golf, as players from the Boston area prefer to travel south when the spring season starts...
...their ill-gotten racial or socioeconomic prejudices. Furthermore, they would identify what they consider to be superior traits by creating them in their children. Such practices will give rise to a culture where there are superior and inferior genetic compositions—all based on who can pay for non-medical...
...Additionally, the potential for social stratification inherent to the proliferation of non-medical PGD should give us even more reason to pause. PGD is prohibitively expensive—the first trait-selected baby was going to cost $18,000. The fact that PGD treatment results in a prevalence of “desirable” characteristics means that there would be visible and genetic differences between the financially well off and those whose parents could not afford PGD. If genetic makeup becomes dependent on wealth, then people’s looks will be an immediate indicator of their upbringing...
...Outside of the region, the Obama administration should make continued nuclear nonproliferation efforts a priority in its foreign policy, and should hold both allies and adversaries to a zero-tolerance standard with regard to clandestine or illegal nuclear weapons programs. The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, originally opened for signature on July 1, 1968, governs the peaceful use of civilian nuclear technology in the international community and places strict safeguards on national nuclear programs, especially with regard to fissile material that could one day be used to construct a nuclear weapon...
...average salary of a full professor at Harvard in 2006 was $165,149. Summers served as president at Harvard through fiscal year 2006, when he earned $610,556 in compensation and benefits and received nearly $100,000 in his expense account, according to publicly available tax information required from non-profit institutions. Under the terms of his resignation, he then received $610,586 in paid sabbatical for the following year, as well as over $143,000 for moving expenses, loan interest subsidies, and other allowances. According to Summers’ Web site at the Harvard Kennedy School, he writes...