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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...would actually be implanted in the womb and then brought to term. But “therapeutic cloning,” which involves creating embryos in a petri dish, letting them grow just long enough to extract stem cells, and then killing them, is being hailed as a morally acceptable??nay, laudable—step forward for what is inevitably referred to as “scientific progress...

Author: By Ross G. Douthat, | Title: Send In the Clones | 12/3/2001 | See Source »

...history, then moved on to her childhood in northern Quebec and later Toronto, a time where she “read everything I could get my hands on.” Atwood placed the “literature” of her childhood into three categories: “acceptable?? books read for school, “acceptable?? books read out of school and, finally, True Romance novels. Grinning, she told her audience, “I learned many things about the seedier side of life from the printed page.” The odd combination...

Author: By Thalia S. Field, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Margaret Atwood's Wilderness Tips | 11/30/2001 | See Source »

...Harvard to want student groups to be open to all students, and the above groups could provide good reasons for their exclusive policies. But once explicitly social groups such as the Pudding are countenanced—once their membership criteria are recognized, in practice if not in theory, as acceptable??it becomes very difficult for the College to prohibit discrimination based on any reason at all. Harvard can certainly take a stand against unreasoned restrictions that denigrate others’ personal worth, or against discrimination based on a flawed stereotype (such as if the math club excluded women...

Author: By Stephen E. Sachs, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: What's Wrong With Final Clubs | 10/23/2001 | See Source »

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