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...reference, the Star paid former prostitute Bobbie Ann Williams, source for the Globe article, and her 13-year-old son for their story and blood samples. The result: "There was no match. Not even close," says a Star source. (The Starr Report contains sufficient data to make a valid DNA comparison to rule out paternity.) But if the tabloid is disappointed by the results, it's putting up a good, Brill's Content-ready front. Says editor in chief Phil Bunton: "We investigate dozens of stories every week, and if they don't prove to be true...
Harvard Security right now has a very limited ability to respond to computer stalking, since valid and not valid uses are indistinguishable by automatic checks. Please e-mail Harvard Computer Security (security@fas.harvard.edu) and ask them why they haven't followed the lead of many other campuses including Cornell and Brown (which display only a person's address, telephone number and ".plan" file when you finger them) in disabling or altering UNIX commands to protect the privacy of Harvard students. Even if the expectation of privacy in the real world is diminishing every day, let us take a small stand...
...syndrome, an increased risk for children of mothers her age--but also for a newer genetic probe for an inheritable neuromuscular disease. She knew that a member of her family carried the gene for it and realized she might have it too. "It was a straightforward matter and deemed valid by our doctor," says Billings. "But Blue Cross adamantly refused to pay the bill--even though it was only...
State involvement will create a vast bioethical quagmire. Even if everyone magically agrees that improving a child's memory is as valid as avoiding dyslexia, there will still be things taxpayers aren't ready to pay for--genes of unproven benefit, say, or alterations whose downsides may exceed the upside. (The tendency of genes to have more than one effect--pleiotropy-- seems to be the rule, not the exception.) The question will be which techniques are beyond the pale. The answers will change as knowledge advances, but the arguments will never...
Share and care. Last year, Radcliffe President Linda S. Wilson adopted the annoying habit of dodging valid questions on the fate of Radcliffe. Consequently, students were kept in the dark during most of the discussions. This is unacceptable...