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...hard adjustment to not be the underdog," said junior Lori Rifkin, the spring captain. "It was harder to prepare for each game, and we started to take it for granted...
...Rugby has a different sense of why you play from any other sport," Rifkin said. "You're out there because you want to be, and there's a real sense of community...
Further practical considerations were presented on Saturday by Jeremy Rifkin, president of the Foundation on Economic Trends in Washington, D.C. Rifkin presented concerns of the impact of genetics...
...dire will come to pass. For Monsanto, however, with a technology in its pocket and a fight on its hands, the situation is about as grim as it can get--at least in terms of public relations. "From a marketing perspective, the technology is brilliant," says biotech critic Jeremy Rifkin. "From a social perspective, it's pathological. This is a question of who controls the seeds of life...
...science as a Faustian enterprise is deeply embedded in the popular psyche, even in the relatively optimistic U.S. Technologies that tinker with the fundamentals of life can inspire anxieties enough; when increasingly wedded to the profits of Big Business, the exercise can begin to look downright alarming. Author Jeremy Rifkin, America's most persistent critic of bioengineering, wonders what is in store for a world in which evolution is treated as a plaything and life as an "invention." A case in point: the announcement in November by Advanced Cell Technology of Worcester, Mass., that it had hybridized human DNA with...