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...bring the rain, praise the sun, mark the time between solstice and equinox, celebrate birth and honor death. Our holidays answer our needs to feast and mourn and manage risk, our customs customized to the point that the Roman pagans had a holiday specifically designed to prevent a certain kind of mold from destroying the wheat by offering animal sacrifices to the god of mildew. We remember those we love on Valentine's Day, those we revere on Easter or Passover or Ramadan, those we fear on Halloween. Thanksgiving was a celebration of harvest, the stuffing of oneself a natural...
Feinstein, too, lowers the bar by praising Mukasey. She accepts his statement that, “I was asked at the hearing and in your letter questions about the hypothetical use of certain coercive interrogation techniques…hypotheticals are different from real life, and in any legal opinion the actual facts and circumstances are critical.” Mukasey would have you believe that questions about waterboarding are purely hypothetical in nature...
...could become too easy for anyone to order the synthetic DNA of, say, drug-resistant small pox. Software could flag the orders of any potentially dangerous synthetic materials and instantly notify an oversight authority, such as the FBI. So, future students in Life Sciences 1a could hypothetically order certain harmless synthetic chromosomes for laboratory experiments, yet be unable to order dangerous versions or have access to the equipment to construct their own.A common criticism of synbio scientists has been their reliance on self-created regulatory systems in safety proposals. “Extreme Genetic Engineering,” a paper...
...Deval L. Patrick ’78 signed into law a bill divesting state pension funds from certain companies that do business with the Sudanese government, which has been accused of backing the ongoing genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan...
...Professor Matory has no real interest in freedom of speech or academic freedom,” Dershowitz said. “He just disapproves of certain kind of speech and he is misusing academic freedom and freedom of speech to make an ideological argument...