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...second President Bush took his first whack at the problem: 24 U.S. and British warplanes slammed five Iraqi radar and communications centers that had become a danger to the planes patrolling the no-fly zones imposed on Iraq after Operation Desert Storm. The military objectives were easy enough to accomplish. Pentagon officials believe the target sites to the south of Baghdad were nicely "degraded," and all planes returned safely to base...
...first consideration is whether, even if we agreed on a good thing genetic engineering could accomplish (say, preventing cystic fibrosis), it would still be wrong in all cases to use it. Unless there's something purposeful about the particular assortment of genes we're born with, there seems no reason not to change them. We interfere with natural biological processes every time we take an antibiotic, and only a very few religious sects maintain that curing disease goes against the rightful order of the world. To prohibit genetic engineering but not any other intervention in our biology seems no less...
...also kept alive another interesting and important streak for the Crimson. With Friday's upset over Penn, Harvard has not lost two games in a row all season. The last Crimson team to accomplish this feat this far into the season was the 1945-46 squad that made it to the NCAA Tournament...
...Kyle Wente's last second, one-handed desperation three-pointer had not fallen, Harvard would have been the first team since 1987 to sweep Penn and Princeton in consecutive games. Dartmouth also had an opportunity to accomplish the feat this weekend after triumphing 57-56 over Princeton on Friday night, but the Big Green lost to Penn 75-62 on Saturday night...
That's why Lawrence Diller, author of Running on Ritalin, says it's tricky to know if his women patients really need drugs--or just simpler lives: "The biggest problem with the women is that they set the bar too high. Nobody could realistically accomplish all these things without taking a performance enhancer...