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Neuroethicists are also worried that these new cognitive technologies could widen the gap between those who can afford them and those who can't, eventually creating different classes of human beings. Just as problematic as unequal access, some say, is the prospect of people being forced, implicitly or explicitly, to take mind-altering medications. Someday we may all feel pressure to take--or give our kids--focus- or memory-sharpening drugs to compete at school or work. In fact, says Richard Glen Boire, senior fellow on law and policy at the Center for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics in Davis, Calif., "some...
...domestic products, as imports will become more expensive. Feldstein called the U.S. trade deficit “enormous,” but said he believes that the savings rate will rise. A U.N. economic report released on Wednesday warned that as the U.S. trade and budget deficits continue to widen, “confidence in the dollar as the world’s main reserve currency could erode rapidly.” Gernot Doppelhofer, a university lecturer and fellow of Trinity College at the University of Cambridge, wrote in an e-mail that he believes that the current account will...
...White House has signaled its interest in plans that could add as many as 30,000 more troops to the country. About 17,000 troops are currently in Baghdad trying to rein in sectarian violence that seems to widen every day, despite a major push by U.S. forces starting in June to secure the capital. The opponents of a troop surge say the failure of this campaign to bring order to Baghdad shows that greater numbers of U.S. forces are unlikely to have an effect on the situation. To be sure, even a doubling of U.S. forces in Baghdad...
...three-goal cushion lasted just 20 seconds. The Big Green’s leading scorer, winger David Jones, maneuvered his way down the ice and fired a wrister past Tobe’s glove and off the right post into the net.The Crimson had a chance to widen the lead with another power play opportunity midway through the frame, but it was Dartmouth that profited instead.After a pass bounced over the stick of rookie defenseman Alex Biega at the Big Green blue line, Dartmouth forwards Connor Shields and Kevin Swallow raced down the ice on a 2-on-1. When...
...itself to Woburn while its permanent home, the Edward J. Sullivan Courthouse in East Cambridge, undergoes scheduled renovations. Cummings Properties, based in Woburn, is managing construction of the temporary courthouse and an office complex near the green. To make way for the increased number of cars, Cummings wants to widen surrounding roads. The company doesn’t want to burden Woburn residents with congestion as a result of its construction. So “we’re proposing to do the off-site roadway [widening] work to mitigate the traffic impact,” said Dennis A. Clarke...