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...internal procedural route of review offers value. The true audience for our appeal is not a technical legal committee, but the Harvard Faculty and the broader Harvard University Community. The true basis of our appeal is not to technical misapplication of rule, but to standards of justice and fair play. The internal procedural route may indeed turn out to be as much sham as was Peter's ad hoc committee process, but this, if it happens, will be demonstrated openly on the record of the Berkman Center and will only further strengthen our appeal...
...going to happen. Indeed, the technology that permitted the Collinses family to pick the sex of their child was first used to select for health, not gender per se. Adapting a technique used on livestock, researchers at the Genetics & IVF Institute in Fairfax took advantage of a simple rule of biology: girls have two X chromosomes, while boys have one X and one Y. The mother has only Xs to offer, so the balance of power lies with the father--specifically with his sperm, which brings either an X or a Y to the fertilization party...
...child's memory is as valid as avoiding dyslexia, there will still be things taxpayers aren't ready to pay for--genes of unproven benefit, say, or alterations whose downsides may exceed the upside. (The tendency of genes to have more than one effect--pleiotropy-- seems to be the rule, not the exception.) The question will be which techniques are beyond the pale. The answers will change as knowledge advances, but the arguments will never...
...Rule out a fatal disease 60% Ensure greater intelligence 33% Influence height or weight 12% Determine...
While Microsoft would like a win here, Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson hasn't exactly been sympathetic to the company; the software Goliath is almost certainly looking to a higher court for vindication. "The court of appeals and the Supreme Court have shown themselves recently to be very reluctant to rule against companies in antitrust cases," notes Cohen. For now, Gates can keep those Hail Mary plays...