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...agreement about how prospective parents should be screened. It's a far cry, says Penn's Art Caplan, director of the center and co-author of the study, from what we accept in assessing the fitness of adoptive parents. ART candidates aren't evaluated in any systematic way (except to determine whether they can pay). The study reported that fewer than 20% of ART specialists even bothered with assessments by psychologists or social workers. One-third of the doctors said they would have no qualms about providing their services to a woman addicted to marijuana. Given the actuarial odds that...
...presume that you chose Bush more for his negative achievements?of which there are many?than for anything constructive. In fact, I can't think of anything positive he has done, except to deceive the American people into voting him into a second term, if that can be regarded as positive. No one likes to think that the population of the U.S. is completely stupid, but if voters supported Bush and his cronies, fully convinced that they were the right choice, then Americans got what they deserve. TIME should have selected the American people as Fools of the Year. Pity...
FERPA legally requires universities not to disclose or verify directory information, including names and e-mail addresses, of individuals with a secure flag, except as required for specific educational purposes. This protection is used both by “publicity-shy” celebrities and for students who “are legitimately terrified of some potentially harmful person—a woman trying to disappear from a stalker, for example,” wrote former Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 in an e-mail...
...Politics” except Ryu—David M. Margolis, Gregg A. Peeples and Simpson—arrived at the Sackler Museum lecture hall for the exam yesterday morning. Margolis declined to comment on Ryu’s absence...
...back in 1970, a history professor now teaching at Brandeis University named David H. Fischer wrote a book called Historians’ Fallacies. Though written by a historian, the book doesn’t cover any history (except by way of critique). Instead, Fischer categorizes the fallacious arguments historians make everyday into a few pages of easy-to-avoid mistakes. I don’t claim to hold even the weakest candle to Professor Fischer, but I’ve found that two of his fallacies rear their ugly heads everyday as Americans—conservatives, liberals, alike?...