IRT的头头叫Jeffrey M. Smith。这人没有任何专业背景，却被尊为GMO专家。他在98年以反GMO作主题参加Iowa州议员选举获少于1%的选票。该报告没有提供任何证据，而只是提供了很搞笑的两个猜测。尽管如此，IRT的这个报告还是马上被许多网站转载（尽管主流媒体，包括主要网络媒体没有转），估计在社交网站上也爆炸性地引发了很多GMO造成gluten intolerance的话题。
１９９７年，白人学生，密西根居民Barbara Grutter申请Univ. of Michigan Law
School 时被拒绝, 她的GPA 是3.8，LSAT：161。 但Grutter女士发现有黑人学生的GPA 和LSAT成绩比她低， 却获得录取， Grutter女士于是把密西根大学告上法庭。 这个 Case叫“Grutter V. Bollinger" （Lee Bollinger 当时人密西根大学校长， 现在是
Columbia 的校长）。 这个案子最后闹到最高法院， 2003年最高法院以５：４的微弱
多数判决密西根大学没有违反宪法，种族区分政策得以维持。
案例二：“Gratz V. Bollinger” 2003 一个时期以来，密西根大学的本科录取规矩是，把学生置于一个150分的体系里排序， 学生如果得分高于100分，则获得录取。密西根大学的录取体系里，少数民族学生包括 非洲裔，西班牙裔和印第安人，自动获得加分20；而一个满分的SAT成绩，只有加分12 。
这次把密西根大学告上法庭的是一女一男两位白人学生（他们都是密西根居民）
Jennifer Gratz and Patrick Hamacher。 他们在申请密西根大学文理学院本科录取时
被拒绝。“Gratz V. Bollinger”案子也闹到最高法院， 2003年最高法院判决，声称
密西根大学不加区别，机械性地给少数民族学生加分，所以违反宪法。
案例三：“Fisher v. University of Texas” （Ongoing）
白人女生Abigail Noel Fisher and Rachel Multer Michalewicz 在2008年申请 the University of Texas at Austin 时被拒绝录取. 她们认为自己受到种族歧视， 以宪 法第十四修正案为依据，将UT-Austin告上法庭， 并进而要求推翻２００３年 Grutter v Bollinger 的判决。官司现在打到最高法院。
现在的情况是， 最高法院的九名法官中，Elena Kagan已经表示弃权，剩下的八人中，
一般认为，John G. Roberts，Samuel A. Alito，Antonin Scalia 和 Clarence
Thomas 会投票给 Fisher,而Sonia Sotomayor，Stephen Breyer，Ruth J B Ginsburg
会投给 Univ. of Texas。法官 Anthony M. Kennedy 则是摇摆票也是关键票。如果投
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDGuiJRZa4I&feature=share
Elder和SCA5的提出者Hernandez的英语辩论很值得一听。
Great debate on SCA5 which wants to introduce race as a factor in the college admission decisions in California. Vote no to SCA5: it does not work and it will make things just worse.
不仅是转基因这点P事儿。大到政治经济，上到宗教哲学，我从来都不是中立派。中立就是中庸，我最讨厌的一种。我以前说过，政治上我基本是自由主义右派（反独裁、争自由、要民主、厌恶意识形态灌输），而经济上我则是社会主义左派（宁肯牺牲部分效率也要基本的社会保障，反对两级分化，主张社会和谐），宗教上我是反对科学主义、同情羡慕宗教的无可奈何的 de facto 无神论者，哲学上是不可知论和悲观主义者。
关于vitamin A deficiency，挺转的人说到金大米就是大救星一样，药到病除。看看维基上怎么说的，估计给了链接你们也从未看过
作者: deadmeat (*)
日期: 06/29/2014 02:19:31
Initial analyses of the potential nutritional benefits of golden rice suggested consumption of golden rice would not eliminate the problems of vitamin A deficiency, but should be seen as a complement to other methods of vitamin A supplementation.[22][23] Since then, improved strains of golden rice have been developed containing sufficient provitamin A to provide the entire dietary requirement of this nutrient to people who eat about 75g of golden rice per day.[4]
In particular, since carotenes are hydrophobic, there needs to be a sufficient amount of fat present in the diet for golden rice (or most other vitamin A supplements) to be able to alleviate vitamin A deficiency. In that respect, it is significant that vitamin A deficiency is rarely an isolated phenomenon, but usually coupled to a general lack of a balanced diet (see also Vandana Shiva's arguments below). The RDA levels accepted in developed countries are far in excess of the amounts needed to prevent blindness.[4] Moreover, this claim referred to an early cultivar of golden rice; one bowl of the latest version provides 60% of RDA for healthy children.[24]
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犹他州是现代美国的一个异数。它地处偏远，远离喧闹，最为知名的当然是摩门教（Mormon）。正式名称：The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 信众描述自己通常用LDS，只在不正式的场合下用Mormon。我们一般人对摩门教了解甚少，似乎有些基督教异端或邪教的特征。零星的印象来自媒体报道的一夫多妻与现代婚姻制度的冲突案例，有些长老有几十妻子，上百子女，总免不了让人联想到旧中国妻妾成群的制度。跟盐湖城的朋友聊起这个，朋友说，多妻制是有其历史成因的，而目前摩门教的教义最后还是做了妥协，把多妻的条款删除了。如今当然还有摩门教徒的私生活是多妻大家庭的（法律上大概与通奸类似，民不告，官不究，只要妻子们相安无事，志愿选择这种生活方式，也就睁一眼闭一眼，不致于陷入重婚的麻烦），不过多妻的生活方式已书面禁止，不再流行。历史上，摩门教在东部纽约州由斯密约瑟创立以后，一直被视为异端，不为所容，于是不得不西迁求生，历尽艰险。斯密约瑟死后，继续由长老杨百翰带领，最后来到类似戈壁的盐湖山脚下，据说杨百翰说，this is the place，从此在此拓荒建城，使得盐湖城成为摩门教的首府和圣地。
At the age of 86, Noam Chomsky remains as active as ever in his work as a world-renowned political dissident and pioneering linguist. He has also opened a new chapter in his life, recently celebrating a one-year anniversary with his new wife, Valeria Wasserman Chomsky, his second marriage. Chomsky discusses the joys of newfound love and why it is a "privilege" for him to help people make sense of a very difficult world.
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AMYGOODMAN: Noam, you’re headed off on a Latin America trip right now for a month. You’ll be in Brazil. You’ll be giving talks in Argentina. When you go to Brazil, you’re going to be meeting your new family.
NOAMCHOMSKY: That’s correct.
AMYGOODMAN: And I was wondering if you could talk a little about that?
NOAMCHOMSKY: Well, we’ve been talking about a variety of things that range from unpleasant to horrific, but we shouldn’t overlook the fact that the world has some wonderful things in it, too. And I got an unexpected, wondrous gift from Brazil that fell into my arms not long ago. We’re now—Valeria—we’re now about to celebrate our first anniversary and off to Brazil to meet Valeria’s family.
AMYGOODMAN: And what is that like for you? You are seen around the world, by many, as—not only as a person who shares incredible political insight in the world, but really as a role model. And so, can you talk personally about your own life?
NOAMCHOMSKY: I’m a very private person. I’ve never talked about my own life much. But, you know, I’ve—personally, I’ve been very fortunate in my life, with—there have been tragedies. There have been wonderful things. And Valeria’s sudden appearance is one of those wonderful things.
AARON MATé: You said, after your first wife, Carol, died, that life without love is empty—something along those lines. Can you talk about that?
NOAMCHOMSKY: Well, I could produce some clichés, which have the merit of being true. Life without love is a pretty empty affair.
AARON MATé: And your own tireless schedule, keeping up with your lectures, writing extensive articles, and still tirelessly answering the emails, from correspondence from people around the world—when I was in college, I remember I wrote you several times and got back these long, detailed answers on complex questions. And there’s people across the globe who could attest to a similar experience. Do you feel a certain obligation to respond to people? Because nobody would fault you, at the age of 86 now, if you took more time for yourself.
NOAMCHOMSKY: I don’t know if it’s an obligation exactly. It’s a privilege, really. These are the important people in the world. I remember a wonderful comment by Howard Zinn about the countless number of unknown people who are the driving force in history and in progress. And that’s people like—I didn’t know you, but people like you writing from college. These are people that deserve respect, encouragement. They’re the hope for the future. They’re an inspiration for me personally.
AMYGOODMAN: You mentioned your daughter Avi being an expert on Cuba, among others. You have three children that you and Carol raised, now broadening your family to Valeria, as well. Can you talk about your philosophy of child rearing in a very politically active family? You have said in the past that you thought, because of your opposition to the war in Vietnam, for example, you might spend years in jail.
NOAMCHOMSKY: Came very close, came close enough so that by 1967, '68, when resistance activities were at their height—and I was an unindicted co-conspirator in one trial, and the prosecutor announced I'd be the leading person in the next trial, but—
AMYGOODMAN: In which trial?
NOAMCHOMSKY: Pardon me?
AMYGOODMAN: In which trial?
NOAMCHOMSKY: These were the so-called trials of the resistance. The first was called the Spock-Coffin trial, although—a lot to say about that. The next ones were called off, mainly because of the Tet Offensive in Vietnam, which convinced the American business community that the war is going to drag on, and they—in a rather significant power play, they compelled Johnson to start backing off. And one of the things they did was end the trials. But it was serious enough so that my wife Carol went back to school after 16 years to get a—finish up with her doctoral degree, since we had three kids to take care of. But during those years, although I was extremely active—I mean, there were times when I was giving seven talks a day and going to demonstrations and so on, but I always managed—took care to spend as much time as I could, quality time, with the kids when they were growing up.
AMYGOODMAN: So what gives you hope?
NOAMCHOMSKY: Things like what you described, also the wonderful things in the world of the kind that I mentioned, like my wife.
AMYGOODMAN:MIT professor, world-renowned linguist, dissident, author, Noam Chomsky. To hear part one of our interview yesterday, when he talked about Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s speech to Congress today, you can go to our website. This is just a clip.
NOAMCHOMSKY: Basically, a joint effort by Netanyahu and mostly Republicans hawks from the United States to undermine any possibility of a negotiated settlement with Iran. Neither Israel nor U.S. hawks want to tolerate a deterrent in the region to their violence.
AMYGOODMAN: Noam Chomsky. To hear both of our hours of interview with him, go to democracynow.org.
YANG: If you've heard anything about me and my campaign, you've heard that someone is running for president who wants to give every American $1,000 a month. I know this may sound like a gimmick, but this is a deeply American idea, from Thomas Paine to Martin Luther King to today.
Let me tell you why we need to do it and how we pay for it. Why do we need to do it? We already automated away millions of manufacturing jobs, and chances are your job can be next. If you don't believe me, just ask an auto worker here in Detroit.
How do we pay for it? Raise your hand in the crowd if you've seen stores closing where you live. It is not just you. Amazon is closing 30 percent of America's stores and malls and paying zero in taxes while doing it. We need to do the opposite of much of what we're doing right now, and the opposite of Donald Trump is an Asian man who likes math.
(APPLAUSE)
So let me share the math. A thousand dollars a month for every adult would be $461 million every month, right here in Detroit alone. The automation of our jobs is the central challenge facing us today. It is why Donald Trump is our president, and any politician not addressing it is failing the American people.
Mr. Yang, I want to bring you in. You support a Medicare for All system. How do you respond to Governor Inslee?
YANG: Well, I just want to share a story. When I told my wife I was running for president, you know the first question she asked me? What are we going to do about our health care?
That's a true story, and it's not just us. Democrats are talking about health care in the wrong way. As someone who's run a business, I can tell you flat out our current health care system makes it harder to hire, it makes it harder to treat people well and give them benefits and treat them as full-time employees, it makes it harder to switch jobs, as Senator Harris just said, and it's certainly a lot harder to start a business.
If we say, look, we're going to get health care off the backs of businesses and families, then watch American entrepreneurship recover and bloom. That's the argument we should be making to the American people.
YANG: I'm the son of immigrants myself. My father immigrated here as a graduate student and generated over 65 U.S. patents for G.E. and IBM. I think that's a pretty good deal for the United States. That's the immigration story we need to be telling.
We can’t always be focusing on some of the -- the -- the distressed stories. And if you go to a factory here in Michigan, you will not find wall-to-wall immigrants; you will find wall-to-wall robots and machines. Immigrants are being scapegoated for issues they have nothing to do with in our economy.
YANG: I speak for just about everyone watching when I say I would trust anyone on this stage much more than I would trust our current president on matters of criminal justice.
(APPLAUSE)
We cannot tear each other down. We have to focus on beating Donald Trump in 2020.
I want to share a story that a prison guard, a corrections officer in New Hampshire said to me. He said, we should pay people to stay out of jail, because we spend so much when they're behind bars. Right now, we think we're saving money, we just end up spending the money in much more dark and punitive ways. We should put money directly into people's hands, certainly when they come out of prison, but before they go into prison.
LEMON: Mr. Yang, why are you the best candidate to heal the racial divide in America -- your response?
YANG: I spent seven years running a non-profit that helped create thousands of jobs, including hundreds right here in Detroit, as well as Baltimore, Cleveland, New Orleans. And I saw that the racial disparities are much, much worse than I had ever imagined.
They're even worse still. A study just came out that projected the average African-American median net worth will be zero by 2053. So you have to ask yourself, how is that possible? It's possible because we're in the midst of the greatest economic transformation in our history. Artificial intelligence is coming. It's going to displace hundreds of thousands of call center workers, truck drivers -- the most common job in 29 states, including this one.
And you know who suffers most in a natural disaster? It's people of color, people who have lower levels of capital and education and resources. So what are we going to do about it? We should just go back to the writings of Martin Luther King, who in 1967, his book "Chaos or Community", said "We need a guaranteed minimum income in the United States of America." That is the most effective way for us to address racial inequality in a genuine way and give every American a chance in the 21st Century economy.
你知道谁在自然灾害中受害最深吗?是有色人种，他们的资本、教育和资源水平较低。那么我们要怎么做呢?我们应该回顾一下马丁·路德·金(Martin Luther King)的著作，他在1967年出版的《混乱还是社区》(Chaos or Community)一书中说，“我们需要美国有保障的最低收入。”这是我们以真正的方式解决种族不平等问题、让每个美国人在21世纪的经济中都有机会（分享经济红利）的最有效方式。
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莱蒙:杨先生，非常感谢。
BIDEN: - in research for new alternatives to deal with climate change.
BASH: Mr. Yang, your response?
BIDEN: And that's bigger than any other person.
YANG: The important number in Vice President Biden's remarks just now is that he United States was only 15 percent of global emissions. We like to act as if we're 100 percent, but the truth is even if we were to curb our emissions dramatically, the earth is still going to get warmer.
And we can see it around it us this summer. The last four years have been the four warmest years in recorded history. This is going to be a tough truth, but we are too late. We are 10 years too late. We need to do everything we can to start moving the climate in the right direction, but we also need to start moving our people to higher ground.
And the best way to do that is to put economic resources into your hands so you can protect yourself and your families.
TAPPER: Thank you, Senator Gillibrand. Mr. Yang, in poll after poll democratic voters are saying that having a nominee who can beat President Trump is more important to them than having a nominee who agrees with them on major issues. And right now, according to polls, they say the candidate who has the best chance of doing that, of beating President Trump is Vice President Biden. Why are they wrong?
YANG: Well, I'm building a coalition of disaffected Trump voters, independents, libertarians, and conservatives, as well as democrats and progressives. I believe I'm the candidate best suited to beat Donald Trump and as for how to win in Michigan and Ohio and Pennsylvania, the problem is that so many people feel like the economy has left them behind.
What we have to do is we have to say look, there's record high GDP in stock market prices, you know what else they're at record high is? Suicides, drug overdoses, depression, anxiety. It's gotten so bad that American life expectancy had declined for the last three years.
And I like to talk about my wife who is at home with our two boys right now, one of whom is autistic. What is her work count at in today's economy. Zero and we know that's the opposite of the truth. We know that her work is amongst the most challenging and vital.
The way we win this election as we redefine economic progress to include all the things that matter to the people in Michigan and all of us like our own heath, our well being, our mental health, our clean air and clean water, how are kids are doing.
If we change the measurements for the 21st century economy to revolve around our own well being then we will win this election.
(CROSSTALK)
TAPPER: Thank you, Mr. Yang. Congresswoman Gabbard, your response?
BASH: Mr. Yang, Mr. Yang, women on average earn 80 cents, about 80 cents for every dollar earned by men. Senator Harris wants to fine companies that don't close their gender pay gaps. As an entrepreneur, do you think a stiff fine will change how companies pay their female employees?
YANG: I have seen firsthand the inequities in the business world where women are concerned, particularly in start-ups and entrepreneurship. We have to do more at every step. And if you're a woman entrepreneur, the obstacles start not just at home, but then when you seek a mentor or an investor, often they don't look like you and they might not think your idea is the right one.
In order to give women a leg up, what we have to do is we have to think about women in every situation, including the ones who are in exploitive and abusive jobs and relationships around the country. I'm talking about the waitress who's getting harassed by her boss at the diner who might have a business idea, but right now is stuck where she is.
What we have to do is we have to give women the economic freedom to be able to improve their own situations and start businesses, and the best way to do this is by putting a dividend of $1,000 a month into their hands.
(APPLAUSE)
It would be a game-changer for women around the country, because we know that women do more of the unrecognized and uncompensated work in our society. It will not change unless we change it. And I say that's just what we do.
Mr. Yang, Iran has now breached the terms of the 2015 nuclear deal after President Trump withdrew the U.S. from the deal, and that puts Iran closer to building a nuclear weapon, the ability to do so, at the very least. You've said if Iran violates the agreement, the U.S. would need to respond, quote, "very strongly." So how would a President Yang respond right now?
YANG: I would move to de-escalate tensions in Iran, because they're responding to the fact that we pulled out of this agreement. And it wasn't just us and Iran. There were many other world powers that were part of that multinational agreement. We'd have to try and reenter that agreement, renegotiate the timelines, because the timelines now don't make as much sense.
But I've signed a pledge to end the forever wars. Right now, our strength abroad reflects our strength at home. What's happened, really? We've fallen apart at home, so we elected Donald Trump, and now we have this erratic and unpredictable relationship with even our longstanding partners and allies.
What we have to do is we have to start investing those resources to solve the problems right here at home. We've spent trillions of dollars and lost thousands of American lives in conflicts that have had unclear benefits. We've been in a constant state of war for 18 years. This is not what the American people want. I would bring the troops home, I would de-escalate tensions with Iran, and I would start investing our resources in our own communities.
TAPPER: Welcome back to the CNN Democratic presidential debate. It is time now for closing statements. You will each receive one minute. Mayor de Blasio, let's begin with you.
YANG: You know what the talking heads couldn't stop talking about after the last debate? It's not the fact that I'm somehow number four on the stage in national polling. It was the fact that I wasn't wearing a tie. Instead of talking about automation and our future, including the fact that we automated away 4 million manufacturing jobs, hundreds of thousands right here in Michigan, we're up here with makeup on our faces and our rehearsed attack lines, playing roles in this reality TV show.
It's one reason why we elected a reality TV star as our president.
(LAUGHTER)
(APPLAUSE)
We need to be laser-focused on solving the real challenges of today, like the fact that the most common jobs in America may not exist in a decade, or that most Americans cannot pay their bills. My flagship proposal, the freedom dividend, would put $1,000 a month into the hands of every American adult. It would be a game-changer for millions of American families.
If you care more about your family and your kids than my neckwear, enter your zip code at yang2020.com and see what $1,000 a month would mean to your community. I have done the math. It’s not left; it’s not right. It’s forward. And that is how we’re going to beat Donald Trump in 2020.
父母每个月给外婆三块钱，作为我们孩子的零用钱。外婆手很紧，因为她要保证这零用钱维持三个孩子到月底。记得每天可以从外婆那里讨来两三分钱，我常常到街头买来一个热腾腾的小红薯头，回家跟小妹分享。这个故事我跟女儿讲，她很爱听，不时拿出来说笑一番：when you were my age, sweet patato was only two cents a piece and you always asked Granny, that is my Great Granny, for two cents to buy one and share with my antie GuGu, but never with my uncle DaBai.
你成天悬梁刺骨的，根本没有诚意加入烟酒生的行列。Just kidding. Thought we were pretty close back then;it's just you never shared your writings with us. Having read some of your blogs, now I realize that talent of yours was more readily shared with your numerous 学姐学妹:-) hahaha
大学同学如是说：
Hi All,
Looking back, the Anqing periode is really the best and happiest time in my life, although as probably every one else I often " 为赋新词强说愁". I can remember almost every thing clearly. So here it goes.
In Anqing I lived with Li Wei, Jin Gengsheng, Li Hanlin and Ding Bangyan in the same room for 4 years. One day in the afternoon at about 5:30, Li Wei came back to the room and he stank so awful that we refused to let him in. We asked him what he had done. He said, he spent the whole afternoon in the toilet(remember the toilet at that time!!! it is more accurate to call it shit pit) squatting on a shit pit reading a novel. When he finished reading the whole novel( mark it, the whole novel!!! What an achievement!) and tried to stand up, he felt so dizzy that he almost fell into the shit pit! You can imagine how we laughed.
He is totally disorderly. He usually slept the whole afternoon(when he did not read in the toilet) and worked the whole night through.He was not strong physically so I often wondered how he could hold himself together. I told the story to my wife and she refused to believe it, thinking I was just kidding her. But it is a true story.
Wish to hear something from you.
Best wishes to you all
XY
P.S. In Li Wei`s web page there are some nice stories to read. I recommend "Kaoyan" and "qianshou". Here are the links:
【美国网民怎么看转基因：英文社交媒体大数据调查告诉你】 2013-12-24
