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...better off not tasting. There is a general feeling that it is wrong for a person's life chances to be determined by a test tube of blood. According to this reasoning, the only issue for public policy is what to do about it. Forbid or discourage genetic tests? Strict rules about what they may or may not be used for? We can't yet prevent Alzheimer's, but we can at least try to prevent discrimination against folks just because they have an increased probability of getting Alzheimer...
...ensure that women have the opportunity to become such self-confident and self-reliant people, as men have-forces us, as thinking citizens, to re-evaluate the relationship between law, its goals and its application. There has always been a tension in legal decision-making between a strict construction, privileging the letter of the law, and a looser one, in which a more flexible understanding of the law's intention dominates. Perhaps the Young Women's Leadership School is an example of when the letter of the law must give way to a more elastic understanding of its intention. Losing...
What to do when one student's viewpoint (in this case, Hack's strict ideas about sexual modesty) conflicts with the university's desire to toss all views into an educational blender? Unlike students of yesteryear, who pushed for diversity with scruffy demonstrations on behalf of minorities, Hack and four other Orthodox Jews have chosen a thoroughly contemporary method of attack: mount a p.r. campaign...
...hard to separate out our feelings: Are we to be sympathetic to the disadvantaged? Angry that they are using their plight in what amounts to a power play? Disgusted at politics as usual? The famine in North Korea raises all these issues and more. Thanks to the strict controls the North Korean government has placed on the press, we do not even know how bad the famine really...
...know that there is a famine and that it is pretty bad. However, citing the South Korean objections to the North's strict handling of the media, Carter adds that reporters "see only what the North Korean officials want them...