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...cord blood is collected without risk to the mother or the newborn, whereas a bone marrow donor faces surgery and general anesthesia. Cord-blood transplants also require a less perfect match in unrelated people, opening up a broader spectrum of potential donors, and recipients' bodies are less likely to reject a transplant...
Well, perhaps a little doubt. "It seems highly unlikely to me," says Shimon Gibson, a noted biblical archaeologist to whom Parfitt has described his project. "You have to make tremendous leaps." Those who hope to find the original biblical item, moreover, will likely reject Parfitt's claim that the best we can do is an understudy. Animating all searches for the Ark is the hope - and fear - that it will retain the unbridled divine power the Old Testament describes. What would such a wonder look like in our postmodern world? What might it do? Parfitt's passionately crafted new theory...
...supplying cable TV to the Houses is desirable, the College would manage the system and would most likely not contract the work to a student business.” If this hostility to cable is still the College’s position, it is disingenuous for the administration to reject potential installation proposals on the grounds of supposed feasibility concerns. The administration has said that cable will be one of the improvements to be contemplated in the forthcoming house-by-house renovation effort. This may sound like a satisfactory alternative—and a reasonable justification for refusing to farm...
...length to which Harvard or any institution ought to go to accommodate a range of religious and moral codes presents a complicated question. Although most Westerners reject the idea that a woman ought to veil when in the streets, Harvard fashions itself as a university of the world. Attracting the greatest talents requires accommodating a wide range of social preferences...
...reflection and free action, this backdrop of religious conservatism has robbed too many women of the ability to meaningfully contemplate alternative lifestyles—without which individual consent is meaningless. Genuine consent requires that women not be implicitly swayed by social norms: They must be free to accept or reject a given practice without harsh social repercussions. But in Turkey, a country with a population that is 99 percent Muslim, the immense societal pressure to be a devout and practicing Muslim goes beyond mere “peer pressure” to deeply influence the range of lifestyles women...