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...what they told us later—these things were rarely explained at the time—was that as children, we had to learn first to configure a world without premature definitions. The narrow lines drawn by conventional stick crayons and the inexorability of black would restrict us. We were meant to understand form without limits...
...place with student groups inhabiting just about every possible niche, the lack of a group that brings scientists together to debate ethics might seem surprising. However, there is a good reason for the lack of interest. Often, demanding to discuss the ethics of science is code for trying to restrict its practice. Many scientists, wary of restrictions and firm in their belief that the ends of science (that is, understanding the world) lie outside of moral considerations, just refuse to enter the debate. But an unholy alliance of national security mavens and self-appointed academic ethicists are now threatening...
...controls, like those AOL has offered for years, but MSN's are better. In addition to choosing from three preset levels for access to Web browsing, e-mail and instant messaging, parents can customize which sites their kids can and cannot visit. When children try to go to a restricted site, they have the option of e-mailing their parents for permission. And at the end of the week, parents get an activity log detailing exactly which sites their kids visited and how much time they spent there. AOL promises a similar feature--AOL Guardian--by year...
Another sad day has come for our comrades down in New Haven. Yale University has adopted new policies to severely restrict students’ use of Kazaa, a popular Internet file-sharing program. By limiting Kazaa connections to snail-like speeds and employing a private eye to spy on students’ music preferences, Yale is moving ever closer to the closed-minded, medieval mood that its architecture does so much to create...
...girls don’t want to restrict themselves by being classified as a female final club or a sorority. “We want to keep our options open,” Perkins says...