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...much of that demand will benefit the Starship and the Avanti is uncertain. The manufacturers still have to demonstrate that their performance claims are valid. Moreover, some executives may not like the idea of entrusting their lives to such novel and unusual designs. Ogrodzinski, for one, thinks they will. "Looks and status have always been a selling point in corporate aircraft," he says. "There is a certain prestige in owning the latest design...
...They don't ask if this is something a department should offer," says Hastings, who is professor of biology. "They ask if this is something that is valid to teach...
...less dollar in the College operating fund corresponds to a like decrease in the endowment does not warrant the inverted conclusion that a senior's gift to the College is an explicit expression of approval for the endowment. Each senior's gift to Harvard-Radcliffe is important and valid in itself, as a direct contribution to the school, beyond the political concerns surrounding the endowment. This is the unifying quality of the Senior Gift...
Scientific researchers do not use the mentally retarded as test subjects in experiments. Why? Severely mentally retarded people are incapable of analytical thought. Yet something stops us from considering them as valid research subjects. We seem to feel that there is something inherent in being human that makes us more "worthy" of life than the other species on Earth...
Reagan's point is a valid one. Not only does the press refuse to closely analyze the Jackson candidacy, it seems to be conspiring to make Jackson into an overnight sensation...