Word: predictabilities
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...course, attitudes often change over time. In-vitro fertilization was effectively illegal in many states 20 years ago, and the idea of transplanting a heart was once considered horrifying. Public opinion on cloning will evolve just as it did on these issues, advocates predict. But in the meantime, the crusaders are mostly driven underground. Princeton biologist Lee Silver says fertility specialists have told him that they have no problem with cloning and would be happy to provide it as a service to their clients who could afford it. But these same specialists would never tell inquiring reporters that, Silver says...
...Richard Atkinson, cognitive psychologist, testing expert and, since 1995, president of the University of California, the SAT has always been a mystery. What, exactly, does it measure? The original exam, developed in the 1920s, was designed to predict how well students would do in college. The Educational Testing Service, which develops the test, insists it still does. But Atkinson, 71, is worried about the growing number of parents pouring thousands of dollars into SAT-prep programs (last year an estimated 150,000 students paid more than $100 million for coaching) and even shopping around for psychologists to certify that their...
...dismiss concerns about genetic engineering. Should the techniques be developed, as now appears likely, there will be significant potential for accidents and abuse, serious issues of distribution and social stratification, questions of homogeneity, and further repercussions, perhaps as wide-ranging as those of industrialization, that we cannot yet predict. Perhaps, in the end, genetic engineering will need to be banned. But there is nothing uniquely apocalyptic about genetic engineering, and we must confront it in the same way we should confront every new development: with our ethics clear and our eyes open...
...happen next year, or next week, or even this afternoon. Economics is called the dismal science as much for being dismally wrong as for being excessively gloomy in its visions of Malthusian catastrophe and Kondratieff instability. Weather forecasters, with their satellites, high-altitude balloons and multidimensional computer models, still predict sunny spells just before the deluge, and blizzards just before the thaw...
...rankings predict potential dual meet finishes based on the top performances on each team, and rank accordingly. Unlike the NCAA meet, which awards points solely to absolute highest competitors--like Gyorffy and Siilats--these rankings, like the Heptagonal Championships, make some depth requisite to be at the top. Rankings which predict the NCAA score place Harvard at about 15th in the country, based on the assumption that Gyorffy will compete...