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I oppose abortion just as I oppose killing people generally; the potential of a human being, to appreciate the world and freely respond to it awes me. Since I oppose killing people, the task of explaining why I am against killing very young people strikes me as conceding something before...
"We do not work for the CIA. We are subsidized by a large variety of companies," Oettinger said. He added the CIA is "in the information business and changes in the world's information situation are relevant to them. That's why they are interested in the program."
Large segments of the public also seem to be changing their attitude toward science. During the turbulent 1960s, the stress on "relevant" studies convinced many students that helping others now was more important than grueling research that might benefit mankind later, a decision no doubt reinforced by the fact that...
"In retrospect one feels bad about having opposed it because there is a student need there. But in the context of the ongoing relationship between the college and the community, the opposition becomes relevant," Wylie added.
"I came to Harvard quite naive--I thought that given the economic and social disparities throughout the world that Harvard students would discuss those issues," not issues that are much less relevant to the world's problems, he said.