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...currently conducted may provide lessons on how to make pandemics-related policy just and fair. He said that the public understands the limited availability of organs for transplant and the rules of distribution, while arrangements for the allocation of avian flu vaccinations are not as clear or well-understood. Daniel Markovits, an associate professor at Yale Law School, explored what restrictions on individual liberty, in the event of a public health crisis, are legally and morally tolerable. He discussed the “prioritarian” approach to distributive equality of medical resources, which aims to minimize the greatest individual...
...time in other countries. Let them travel, and let them learn foreign languages by the dozen. But if one is serious about maintaining America’s position as the world’s leader in higher education, “study abroad” as it is currently understood is not the answer; the world is too competitive a place to have students wasting a quarter of their college years accumulating drinking stories, no matter how humorous or enjoyable. Mark A. Adomanis ’07, a Crimson editorial editor, is a government concentrator in Eliot House...
...like the wrapper around a joint. "Just like we did in the '70s," he says, and the audience cheers. Sometimes he takes the act too far. In Heat Buford quotes a liquored Batali asking one of his waitresses to "take off your blouse" for his table. Batali says everyone understood that he was joking. "It's never anything as sinister as it sounds when someone writes it down," he told me. But when you're in the business of hedonism, it's hard to draw lines...
Earthquakes, scientists now know, occur along the San Andreas because the immense slabs of rock that make up the earth's crust are ever so slowly sliding past one another, borne by poorly understood currents that roil through a sea of semimolten rock. By keeping tabs on the position of key landmarks on either side of the fault, scientists can measure the speed at which the plates are traveling, in this case about 2 in. a year. The problem for the Bay Area boils down to this: except for one short section, the plates on either side...
...also said that on many of his travels, women approach him and ask plaintively, "What is going to happen to my children when I die?" The problem of a generation of AIDS orphans, who have experienced the emotional trauma of witnessing their family members perish, is "hardly understood around the world," Lewis said. "We will be dealing with it over the next several decades...