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...work should be limited to two-week-old embryos and calling for public education so Americans can come to accept the idea of lab experiments on fertilized eggs. Two-week-old embryos "do not have the same moral status as infants and children," they said, but they do merit "significant respect as a developing form of human life."Post your opinion on theScience & Technologybulletin board...
Kristen M. Clarke '97, president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Black Students Association (BSA), said the book "lacks any scholarly merit or application in our society." To demonstrate their displeasure with the book, members of the BSA even held a public protest against The Bell Curve on the steps of Widener Library...
...this case, the plaintiffs are trying to show that Lilly knew that some patients became suicidal or agitated during clinical trials. Lilly lawyers will argue that Wesbecker's was not a sudden, Prozac-induced rage but rather a carefully plotted attack, and that the plaintiffs' claim lacks scientific merit...
...writing in response to a recent editorial on junior faculty tenure ("Out-standing Junior Faculty Merit Tenure," Opinion, Nov. 16, 1994). While I agree that Harvard's tenure selection process is flawed, I feel that the chief problem is one which the editorial failed to address. In choosing which professors to tenure, Harvard ought to be more attentive to teaching ability...
...They also carry with them a penchant for challenging the status quo. Until recently, Asian funding agencies still doled out research money according to traditional egalitarian formulas, with little regard for quality. Now they are being pressured to establish peer-review panels staffed by scientific experts to gauge the merit of competing proposals. Automatic promotions, still typical at many academic institutions, are also coming under attack, and some brave souls have even mounted an assault on the Confucian ethos -- particularly its stultifying worship of professors and its reluctance to question authority. Wen Chang, a young researcher at Academia Sinica, politely...