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...specifying how their child looks would be able to act on their ill-gotten racial or socioeconomic prejudices. Furthermore, they would identify what they consider to be superior traits by creating them in their children. Such practices will give rise to a culture where there are superior and inferior genetic compositions—all based on who can pay for non-medical...

Author: By Derrick Asiedu | Title: Build-A-Baby | 4/6/2009 | See Source »

...downsized, revitalized U.S. car industry will still be playing catch-up. Millions of car buyers won't consider U.S. brands for some time to come; the perception that they are inferior lingers long beyond the reality that they are not. And foreign competition may increase: companies in Asia, such as China's Chery Automobile and India's Tata Motors, could plant their flags here. Established players like Volkswagen and Hyundai-Kia have plans to build plants in the U.S. by 2012. Which means the sales rate will be exceeded by manufacturing capacity, as it always...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Detroit Be Retooled — Before It's Too Late? | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...follower, not the planner. Under Harris' careful direction, he learned to turn his inner pain inside out, into an insane desire to punish others. By the spring of 1999, he and Harris were both calling themselves gods. The rest of us were zombies, losers, robots, trapped in our inferior little lives by our inferior little minds. They were ready to kill. (Read "The Columbine Tapes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Meaning Of Murder | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...real world.” But it must be understood that schools alone are incapable of determining gender relations. When schools segregated men and women before, such segregation was not the reason that men were allowed to feel superior to women or that women were taught to feel inferior to men. The sexism of the past stemmed from innumerable sources within society as a whole, and the schools “back then” did not create the awful sexual stereotypes; they merely reinforced them. And, since we no longer live in a society that promotes blatant sexism...

Author: By James K. Mcauley | Title: DISSENTING OPINION: Call Off the Gender Police | 3/15/2009 | See Source »

...season, Harvard was consistently among the top ten teams in the country, even reaching as high as No. 4 in the rankings at one point. But while the Crimson won nearly all of its games against inferior opponents, the team could not thrust itself into the top-tier of national powerhouses, finishing 0-5-2 against squads ranked sixth or higher...

Author: By Loren Amor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: AMOR PERFECT UNION: Hockey Season Lacks Luster | 3/11/2009 | See Source »

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