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...destroying that microscopic dot the exact moral equivalent of driving a knife through the heart of an innocent 6-year-old girl? Some stem-cell enthusiasts think that even antiabortion absolutists can support stem-cell research, since it uses surplus embryos that are doomed anyhow. But that logic would justify Nazi experiments on doomed Jews in the concentration camps. If the microscopic dot is a human being with full human rights, the answer is easy: no stem-cell research...
Berman said FAS continues to operate under a tight fiscal belt, having already taken on such major projects as the curricular review, expansion of the Faculty and construction in the North Yard. And the relatively small surplus of $2.3 million posted by FAS last fiscal year has led administrators to reign in certain areas of the budget...
Friday's CEO Richard Snead says he came around on Atkins last summer, when waiters at the company's 500 or so U.S. restaurants began to notice a big wave of customers substituting vegetables for potatoes, which left the restaurants holding a surplus of spuds and struggling to fill the side orders. "It didn't take a lot of research to understand that America was under the influence of the Atkins revolution," Snead says. Enter menu items like the Tuscan spinach dip and the tuna-salad wrap. Ruby Tuesday, which was one of the first to start serving Atkins-friendly...
Golf is trying to create a similar online marketplace at playgolfamerica.com The Professional Golfers' Association of America (PGA), which is organizing the Play Golf America website and advertising campaign, is selling speed rather than price, given that the cost of a round has been declining anyway amid the surplus of courses. "The complaint we hear more than any other is that golf takes too much time," says PGA of America president M.G. Orender, who claims that more than 17 million adults have expressed interest in playing golf. "We're asking our Play Golf America members to get back...
...Student Activities Fund, which is intended to fund nonalcoholic campus-wide events, will also be reviewed this summer. This year, the fund had a surplus of $10,000 that was never allocated to any student groups...