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...present, Harvard will not allow a ROTC unit on campus but does permit students to cross register with MIT and participate in MIT's three ROTC units. Harvard also accepts military scholarships contingent upon students' participation in ROTC...
...techniques have also given birth to once unimaginable ethical dilemmas. Do sperm and egg donors have a claim on their biological offspring, and vice versa? Do embryos, frozen or thawed, have a constitutional right to life? How much manipulation of genetic material will society be willing to permit? "Technology makes us look at our most cherished conceptions of who we are and what we want to be," says Dr. Kenneth Ryan, a professor of reproductive biology at Harvard Medical School. "People have to decide what kind of society they want to live...
...many looming face-offs between the White House and Congress, the Senate last week defied George Bush's threatened veto and passed a measure that would allow abortion counseling at federally funded clinics. It would also permit use of Medicaid funds for abortions for poor women who become rape or incest victims...
Shamir also confronts an economic morass that does not permit him to ease up on his request for loan guarantees. Since mid-1989, 300,000 Soviet Jews have emigrated to Israel, and it is estimated that the number may top 1 million by 1995. Israel, which had a population of 4.5 million before the influx began, lacks the resources to absorb so many. Health care, schools and infrastructural needs are all suffering; early this year unemployment hit a record high of 10.8%. Moreover, the tide of immigrants improves the demographic position for Israel's Jews, many of whom feared until...
...kind of treatment homosexuals often receive from the mainstream population, and from officials looking to be reelected, Noble says. At the time, all city councillors--including Wolf--opposed the plan for the hospital on the grounds that Noble had not gone through the accepted channels to obtain a permit...