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Those who focus as much on responsibilities as on rights note that "when people adopt children, the agencies that help them must think about the well-being of the child," says Erik Parens, a research associate at the Hastings Center--and that includes the couple's capacity to function as parents. It would be hard for a woman with such a medical history to adopt. But the reproduction business is virtually unregulated and profit driven, with the ethics improvised at best. "There is a need for general oversight," argues Parens, "instead of the free-for-all we now have...
...coming weeks in France, Germany and elsewhere. But hold on a minute. A documentary about a year in the life of the Berlev?g Male Choir? In Norwegian, with subtitles? Wouldn't watching icicles form be more interesting? Actually, no. This charming feature-length film by the Norwegian director Knut Erik Jensen is so full of warmth, humor, sensitivity, beauty, social commentary and stirring music that it will melt any negative preconceptions...
...campus. The liberal, New Jersey-born economist earned her Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has also taught there, as well as at Princeton and Harvard - where her son, Elliott, 18, is studying government. Tyson, in mock horror, fears he'll become a politician. Married to novelist Erik Tarloff, she has written many books and articles, on such topics as Eastern Europe, high technology and global trade competition...
Harvard graduates four seniors in Kyle and Ryan Egan, Erik Frost and Michael Sabala, who is also a Crimson editor. Princeton, however, will graduate nine. Based on the strength of the veterans combined with the memory of this weekend, Ryan Egan feels confident that Harvard won’t stay in second for long...
...cross-country skiing and target shooting, says biathlete Frode Andresen, "is the two disciplines that meet in hell, because it is at one extreme mental and at the other extreme physical." Only two other athletes, both speed skaters, have won four gold medals at one Winter Olympics. American Erik Heiden took five in 1980 and Russia's Lydia Skoblikova won four in 1964. After the relay Bjorndalen was quietly matter-of-fact about his achievement. "I made four good races," he said, "and won four golds. I don't think about history. We just...