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...even laudable--they may have missed the larger point. The public may welcome ways a government can regulate cloning, but what's needed even more is ways a thinking species can ethically fathom it. "This is not going to end in 90 days," says Princeton University president Harold Shapiro, chairman of President Clinton's committee. "Now that we have this technology, we have some hard thinking ahead...
...huge moral distance from doing the same to a human embryo. It took 277 trials and errors to produce Dolly the sheep, creating a cellular body count that would look like sheer carnage if the cells were human. "Human beings ought never to be used as experimental subjects," Shapiro says simply...
...rest of the league, the bag is mixed. Cornell was winless in the league last year and Penn lost top players Amy Shapiro and Jessica Gilhorn to graduation. Otherwise, it is hard to say who of Brown, Harvard, Yale or Dartmouth is the clear favorite to challenge Princeton...
...McDonald's trains a burger flipper to use a computer to monitor inventory," says Shapiro, "the employee's new skills may enable him to win a better position with Red Lobster or K Mart, and the competitor reaps the benefit of McDonald's training investment." This market failure hits average workers hardest. As Clinton has noted time and again, large corporations spend whatever is necessary to ensure that their executives are up to date on management techniques because, says Shapiro, "improving the decisions of supervisors produces higher returns from the workers they direct." Those at the top receive the education...
What could be done? No vast new government programs are necessary, says Shapiro, "but a new, government-mandated bargain could be struck." A rule of tax policy already holds that when a company provides a tax-free compensation, such as health-care coverage or pension contributions to its employees, it must cover virtually its entire work force. Training is not currently viewed as a tax-free compensation, but it should be. If it were, companies wouldn't be directly compelled to train workers; but if they provided training for some employees (as they do now), they would then have...