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...comes as a long-anticipated bookend to the four-year-long effort to replace the Core. But the work of implementing the new curriculum is just beginning, and many questions remain unanswered as the Faculty gears up for its biggest curricular transition in a generation.The approved legislation provides a partial timeline for the implementation of the new program. The committee that administers the Core is slated to be dissolved at the end of the coming academic year—but the legislation does not spell out when the Core itself will cease to exist.Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross...
...human cases have lately popped up in Egypt, Laos and Cambodia. The frontline in the war against the disease remains the Southeast Asian nation of Indonesia, which has recorded more bird flu fatalities - 75 deaths, including 18 this year - than any other country. But the world only has a partial idea of what's happening with bird flu in Indonesia. That's because the country stopping sharing samples of the H5N1 virus with the World Health Organization (WHO) starting at the end of last year. Every time a country records a new human cases of avian flu, it is expected...
...doses. That means that a new pandemic could well run its course and kill millions before anyone could get their hands on a new vaccine. Everyone - rich and poor - would be left out. At best, a previously stockpiled vaccine made from the current strain of H5N1 could provide some partial immunity, but there will be no way of knowing until the pandemic hits...
Reasonable people who see the world as it exists—and not those whose vision is narrowed by ideological blinders—do not attempt to fit every political event into a predetermined theoretical framework. When considering issues—such as partial-birth abortion—only ideologues are content to dispense with the facts, for, as Rousseau famously summarized, they do not affect the question...
While a moral consensus against all forms of abortion has yet to emerge—or, at least, yet to marshal the same political and financial resources as the militant pro-abortion lobby—a clear majority opposes the partial-birth variety. Not ideology, but natural human sentiment, has opened the eyes of enough Americans, and enough congressional legislators and Supreme Court justices, finally to ban the procedure. The fact stands, as some pro-abortion papers even indicated: Partial-birth abortion is cruel, barbaric, and inhumane...