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...Bentham’s conception of the individual. Bentham operated with no “concept of right” and thus, human rights did not exist in his world, he wrote. “Bentham’s doctrines of greatest happiness and conditional obligation do not protect rights at all,” Chertoff said. “To the utilitarians, the only reason why civil rights should be respected would be that more pleasure is attained or pain avoided by general respect for them.” Chertoff also attacked what he saw as the lack...
...profiles on Facebook—which are only accessible by certain portions of the public—can be taken out of context, re-posted, and let loose in the vastness of cyberspace. “In general, students forget that information is largely visible depending on how you protect it,” says Erin Nettifee, Harvard’s supervisor of residential computing.Why should we care?“I think that the whole growing phenomenon of people being stalkers on the internet is a little scary and worrisome but I don’t think it?...
...educate Christians about climate change and urged the U.S. Congress to enact legislation to curb global warming. The initiative marks the first time that influential evangelicals have defied the White House on an environmental issue, going so far as to equate stopping global warming to their commitment to "protect unborn life...
...many ways these studies raised more questions than they answered. (They?re on solid ground there, considering they were conducted as part of the Women?s Health Initiative, which famously concluded in 2002 that long-term hormone replacement therapy does not protect women?s hearts after menopause. There are plenty of doctors, and quite a few patients, who are still trying to figure what that actually means.) Strictly speaking, the results do not apply to men, who tend to get heart disease earlier than women do and for whom a low-fat diet might be particularly beneficial. But this study...
INTERNET After the Soviet Union beat the U.S. into space with the launch of Sputnik I, the first satellite, in 1957, the Department of Defense created the Advanced Research Projects Agency to kick-start innovation. It named Joseph Licklider to find ways to protect the U.S. against a space-based nuclear attack, and he believed a communications network was key to those efforts. The first Net went live in October 1969 with the University of California, Los Angeles, talking to the Stanford Research Institute. In 1990 the National Science Foundation expanded the system connecting university networks. It reached the public...