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...bad” not because of a moral reason but because of the biological disadvantages caused by inbreeding. Old arguments based on values have been replaced by arguments over data. Groups ranging from the environmentalist movement to the pro-life movement use scientific research to justify their worldviews. In today??s world, it isn’t enough to simply logically disagree, but rather one must negate or at least undermine the opposition science’s authority...
...book,” Ruggie said. Jane A. Nelson—director of the Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative at the Kennedy School and a former UN co-worker of Ruggie—said that Ruggie’s work is “increasingly important in today??s world, where corporations are very influential and have enormous scope”. “Developing new frameworks for governance is going to be very important,” Nelson said. She emphasized that Ruggie’s versatile roles, both in policy and academe, have made...
...burden on already overwhelmed primary care physicians. But even ignoring the entrance of uninsured patients into the health care system, the American Academy of Family Physicians predicts that the country will need 40,000 more family physicians by 2020 due to the aging population, a 40 percent increase over today??s numbers...
...sports fans. His new book “God Save the Fan,” a collection of ruminations on all things sports, bemoans what he sees as the loss of the sports fan’s influence in the sports industry. He claims today??s world of professional athletics is dominated by big money contracts and organizations like the NFL and ESPN whose inner-workings are hidden from the public eye.The problem with the book is that I’m not the type of fan he’s particularly interested in saving. He?...
There is considerable ferment in the academic world today??about the high cost of college, about the curriculum and what students actually learn and should learn, about teaching methods, and about the quality of student life. What can be done to channel these concerns constructively into improvements...