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Publicly, FAS officials deny that tensions exist, but privately, some administrators say that they are concerned about Fineberg's activist role in academic matters...
...perhaps even personalities decided before birth supposedly reduces our children's freedom--it violates their identity, changing what our children truly are. But to speak of genetic engineering as restricting a child's freedom is contradictory: there is no ghostly pre-conception "potential child" whose free will to exist must be respected. Basing identity on genes would represent the worst kind of identity politics--identities should not be protected above people, and eliminating Parkinson's disease is different from eliminating those who suffer from...
...gave the district commissioner's office the letter, preventing his mother's family from grabbing the house. Fine, said his relations; if you think you're a man, you look after your brothers. They have contributed nothing to the boys' welfare since. "It's as if we don't exist anymore either," says Tsepho. Now he struggles to keep house for the others, doing the cooking, cleaning, laundry and shopping...
...break it. These countries are too poor to doctor themselves. The drugs that could begin to break the cycle will not be available here until global pharmaceutical companies find ways to provide them inexpensively. The health-care systems required to prescribe and monitor complicated triple-cocktail regimens won't exist unless rich countries help foot the bill. If there is ever to be a vaccine, the West will have to finance its discovery and provide it to the poor. The cure for this epidemic is not national but international...
...perhaps more than any other factors. In Malawi, where until the end of dictator Hastings Banda's rule in 1994 women were barred from wearing short skirts and men could be jailed for having long hair, public discussion of AIDS was forbidden. According to the government, AIDS didn't exist inside Malawi. Catherine Phiri, 38, knew otherwise. She tested positive in 1990, after her husband had died of the disease. Forced to quit her job as a nurse when colleagues began to gossip, she sought refuge with relatives in the capital, Lilongwe. But they too shunned her and eventually forced...