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Carr said he has been involved in human rightsfor several years and met Chinese dissident HarryWu in 1995. While there is some scholarship ofhuman rights at various law schools, he said, theyapproach the issue only in terms...
Merry Touborg, a spokesperson for the Office ofHuman Resources, said the University is notdivulging the contents of the new contract untilafter the vote. She referred questions about thespeed of negotiations to HUCTW leadership...
What is more surprising is that Dennett alsotakes on eminent scientists like Steven Jay Gould,Noam Chomsky and Roger Penrose, each of whomattempts to introduce some kind of skyhook thatwill put a halt to the evolutionary explanation ofhuman capabilities. The nature of Dennett'sdisagreement with his foes is often obscure, andthere is such a flurry of names and citations thatthe inattentive reader will probably begin to justtake Dennett's word for it. What it all comes downto is that Dennett sees Darwin's dangerousidea--that everything from consciousness to ethicscan be explained by the function of naturalselection over time...
President Clinton today rejected a controversial National Institutes of Health advisory panel's unanimous endorsement of government support ofhuman embryo research-- potentially used to correct infertility and avoid birth defects. "I do not believe that federal funds should be used to support the creation of human embryos for research purposes," Clinton said, continuing a ban first established by President Ronald Reagan. The panel's proposal came over intense opposition from groups that believe human life, for legal purposes, should begin at the moment of conception. The prominent doctors and researchers on the panel moved forward carefully, saying the work should...
...level officials include an assistantbudget secretary, a deputy secretary and anassistant secretary in the Department of NaturalResources, a deputy secretary in the Department ofHuman Resources and the executive director ofMaryland's Social Services Administration...