Recently, the British company DNA Worldwide launched a new product, available over the Internet, that can determine the sex of a fetus after as few as six weeks of a pregnancy. The test, called “Pink or Blue,” can detect the presence of Y-chromosomes in the fetal DNA in a sample of the mother’s blood, and it offers a post-birth refund for any false results. While obviously a step forward in genetic research, the implications of the test, especially in the context of abortion, are increasingly problematic.
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Professors expect them to keep up with their classes. Fellow students expect them to keep grade medians low. Alumni expect them to win.
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To the Editor:
Have you given up on even the pretension of being serious? You’re distressed because a trustee candidate was “tapped to run by current petition trustees,” but also refused to “disclose the sources of his funding” (“Verbum Ultimum: Pull Back the Curtain,” May 18)? Oh, please. The bottom line is not that Stephen Smith ‘88 won. The bottom line is that the system worked. A very significant portion of the alumni were able, in spite of administration support of an “insider” candidate, to express their longstanding frustration with the state of affairs at their beloved College over the last 20 years.
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