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...whole council. One possible option could be the dissolution of the CLC. In December, former UC President Matthew J. Glazer ’06 introduced legislation that would have dissolved CLC and reduced the size of the UC by a third. The majority of council members Monday seemed to reject such a possible proposal. “In a time when we are always looking to do more, always trying to do more and meet more student need, what would it say if we reduced our membership by a third,” said CLC member Nicholas E. Huber...
...international community should push for plans like the one proposed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, under which Russia would manage all nuclear fuel for Iran. Although the extremists among the Iranian elites came to reject it, there was consensus over this plan just months ago. Such a proposition would be safer and more beneficial for both Iran and international stability. But should such a plan fail to gain traction, the U.S. should continue to exert pressure on its allies to enforce strict sanctions on Iran...
...whether or not Weinreich’s experiments provided a means to falsify evolution. Weinreich said that his experiment has implicitly tested the ability of natural selection to direct evolution, but he emphasized that “We have tested the evolutionary hypothesis and have found no reason to reject it.” Weinreich said that he would like to follow up his research with a study on how the malaria parasite acquires drug resistance. Although the Science publication has no bearing on medical treatment because of the widespread resistance to its tested antibiotic, he hopes that study...
...there is new and powerful evidence in Tiktaalik for the steps that backboned animals took to crawl out of the sea in the first place. Many who reject evolution in favor of divine creation claim that the fossil record doesn't contain the so-called transitional species anticipated by Darwin's theory. This ancient, walking fish is yet more evidence that such an argument is simply wrong; all sorts of missing links preserved in exquisite detail have been and will be discovered...
...theory is the framework for all modern biology, from the study of fossils to the mapping of the genome, but it is also profoundly practical in application. Scientists are debating the likelihood and timing of a horrific pandemic caused by avian flu. Those who worry about that possibility and reject evolution live in a world of contradiction. If the H5N1 virus, the infective agent for avian flu, adopts a new lifestyle and moves directly from one human host to another, it would be because it evolved that capacity...