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...World Week for Animals in Laboratories," which ran through last week, gave animal rights activists from Boston and beyond an opportunity to descend on the Square and protest the use of primates in laboratory experiments at Harvard and MIT. Caged demonstrators, armed with incendiary photos that allegedly depicted the torturous treatment of primates at the MIT labs, vowed to remain silent for 100 hours in protest of this indignity...
When professors sign on to work for Harvard, they contract the exclusive use of their teaching and knowledge in exchange for access to the resources of the University, material compensation and academic prestige. While research and speaking tours are certainly meaningful and productive endeavors, to the extent that they detract from professors' teaching engagements and availability to Harvard students' needs, they should be curtailed, or at least regulated by the University. Consequently, we support the University's efforts to revise the faculty "Gray Book" to reflect this obligation...
...reminiscent of the best Orientalist days of Rudyard Kipling and James Clavell: "It looks like the Bushido spirit is alive and well. (Bushido refers to the Japanese warrior ethic.) Based on the recent public debate surrounding the portrayal of minorities in the media, it is not clear whether the use of the word is appropriate…[But] bushido does invoke images of strength and combat, not math or science. Think samurai, not hairless. So, the Asian American Association (AAA) might actually be grateful...
...have observed that although the U.N. has set up stringent sanctions, it has not monitored the Iraqi borders as well as it should. Reporters in Iraq have observed that for every legitimate load entering Iraq from Turkey, as many as 200 enter without permission. Hussein is quick to make use of such loopholes. Meanwhile, his people suffer under the sanctions, and blame the U.S. for their troubles...
McDonald's has decided to put public relations before profit in rejecting the use of genetically modified potatoes for its famed french fries. The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that McDonald's, Frito-Lay and other fast-food and snack-food companies are pulling genetically modified (GM) potatoes from the fryer and quietly telling their suppliers to stick to non-GM varieties. In fact, potato wholesalers have received so many requests for non-genetically modified potatoes that they have asked farmers to stop growing the "NewLeaf" potato, developed by Monsanto, which is equipped with a gene that protects it from...