Thursday, June 30, 2011
Slim Amamou
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Kevin Roberts
Sunday, June 26, 2011
桐生政次
Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
John R. Oneal, Bruce M. Russett
Alan Wolfe
Pierre Goodrich
Don Young
Marisol Valles Garcia
日経ウーマンオンライン
Friday, June 24, 2011
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Friday, June 17, 2011
Carl Levin
守屋淳
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Emilie Rosso
中村うさぎ
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
大津あきら
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Personal Genome Project
U.S. Human Genome Project
Single nucleotide polymorphisms, or SNPs (pronounced "snips"), are DNA sequence variations that occur when a single nucleotide (A,T,C,or G) in the genome sequence is altered. For example a SNP might change the DNA sequence AAGGCTAA to ATGGCTAA. For a variation to be considered a SNP, it must occur in at least 1% of the population. SNPs, which make up about 90% of all human genetic variation, occur every 100 to 300 bases along the 3-billion-base human genome. Two of every three SNPs involve the replacement of cytosine (C) with thymine (T). SNPs can occur in coding (gene) and noncoding regions of the genome. Many SNPs have no effect on cell function, but scientists believe others could predispose people to disease or influence their response to a drug.
Although more than 99% of human DNA sequences are the same, variations in DNA sequence can have a major impact on how humans respond to disease; environmental factors such as bacteria, viruses, toxins, and chemicals; and drugs and other therapies. This makes SNPs valuable for biomedical research and for developing pharmaceutical products or medical diagnostics. SNPs are also evolutionarily stable—not changing much from generation to generation—making them easier to follow in population studies.
Scientists believe SNP maps will help them identify the multiple genes associated with complex ailments such as cancer, diabetes, vascular disease, and some forms of mental illness. These associations are difficult to establish with conventional gene-hunting methods because a single altered gene may make only a small contribution to the disease.
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Dana Rohrabacher
Monday, June 13, 2011
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Tom Clougherty
室山哲也、太田光、田中裕二
太田: だけど俺は文明っていうのは、快楽だけで進んできたわけじゃなくって。昔はひどかったわけじゃないですか、過酷じゃないですか、本当に自然ていうのは。その中で子どもは死んでいく。それこそ、今、インドや何かそういう状況のところがいっぱいある。そういう中で、やっぱりエネルギーというものが人間を暖めてくれて。命を守ろうっていうのがまず第一にあって、医療も進んできたし。俺はその文明っていうのが、決して間違っていたと思えないし。
室山: 僕らはそういうふうにしか生きれないから。
室山: これで行くしかないんです。いつかこれで滅亡するんですよ、人間は。
太田: 滅亡するかな。
室山: するする、もうそれは。あらゆる生き物はどこかでいなくなります。人間はどこかで消える。
太田: そうなの?また随分悲観的な考えを持っているね。
室山: 基本はそうなの。永遠の命なんかないのは誰も知っていて。
田中: いや、それは普通に地球が滅亡するのと同じように、そういうことで言ったら、まあ人間はいつか滅亡するっていうことだろうけど。
室山: 大絶滅っていっぱいあったでしょ。ああいうのを見たら、もう人類が滅亡するのは当たり前だと思うけど。
太田: 随分悲観的だね。そんなことない。そんなことないよ。
室山: まだ若いな。
Mark Twain
Saturday, June 11, 2011
U.S. Department of State
With these goals in mind, the United States seeks to:
- Promote democracy as a means to achieve security, stability, and prosperity for the entire world;
- Assist newly formed democracies in implementing democratic principles;
- Assist democracy advocates around the world to establish vibrant democracies in their own countries; and
- Identify and denounce regimes that deny their citizens the right to choose their leaders in elections that are free, fair, and transparent.
渡辺謙
この桐分校の彼らは、普通の人が学校へ行っていたときに、何かしらの事情で学校へ行けなかった。そのことを一生、コンプレックスとして持っている。だけど、ある意味、普通に社会の中で生きていたわけです。単純に、学ぶということは、教科書を読んで何かを習得するということではなくて、やっぱりこう、人と人との中で何かを学び続けるというか。この桐分校の存在は、なにか深いような気がしました。
登場人物それぞれにものすごく複雑なバックグランドがあるんですけど、そんな男達が、この桐分校の生活の中で、ある種、中学生のようなピュアさを持って、卒業していくような気がするんです。人として持っている、原理的な喜びだったり、人とのつながりに目覚めるというか。その部分には、みなさん共鳴していただけると思います。
彼らは、学校を卒業して残りの刑期を終えたら、きちんと更生して、社会に出て行くと思うんですけど、ただそこで、それから先に豊かな社会生活が実現できるのか? 希望を持ったとして、その先に必ず明るい未来があるわけではないかもしれませんし、ドラマのエンディングも希望に満ち溢れたものではありません。でも人と人との係わり合いやふれあいの大切さという原則的な部分が、このドラマの骨にあるような気がします。
Friday, June 10, 2011
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Diana Widmaier-Picasso
Marie-Thérèse Walter
asahi.com
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Democracy Now!
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Aryeh Neier
United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Regional Bureau for Arab States (RBAS)
- knowledge deficit*;
- deficit in the engagement of women in various aspects of society;
- democracy deficit.
National Security Strategy of the United States of America
Richard Ashby Wilson
The 9/11 Commission Report
Alexis de Tocqueville
Paul Gready
Michael Ignatieff
IPv6.com
Monday, June 6, 2011
Tony Evans
Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Freedom of speech and expression
- Freedom of worship
- Freedom from want
- Freedom from fear
香港人权监察
When I give food to the poor, I am called a saint; but when I call on the government to feed its people, I am accused of seeking to subvert the authority of the State.
The issue of 'Human Rights' is a political issue. It concerns the relationship between the State and the individual. The International Covenant discussed in this book is called the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. But it is also a legal issue. Your right to life, liberty and security is your legal right not to be arbitrarily arrested, detained or 'disappeared' and killed. When you demand the government respect this or any other right, your legal right becomes a political demand.
Daniel P. Moynihan
- International law and treaty obligations are wholly on our side.
- Human rights is a political component of American foreign policy, not a humanitarian program.
- Human rights has nothing to do with our innocence or guilt as a civilization. It has to do with our survival.
- The new nations must be made to understand that our commitment to them depends on their ceasing to be agents of the totalitarian attack on democracy.
Jimmy Carter
There’s an ideological struggle that has been in progress for decades between the Communist nations on the one hand and the democratic nations on the other. Mr. Brezhnev and his predecessors have never refrained from expressing their view when they disagreed with some aspect of social or political life in the free world. And I think we have a right to speak out openly when we have a concern about human rights wherever those abuses occur.
Sunday, June 5, 2011
平井憲夫
内田樹
武田邦彦
潮匡人
池田信夫
高島俊男
Translators
DeeAnne White
Maureen Dowd
Auguste Comte
The Academy of Evolutionary Metaphysics
The most important moral development in recent times has been the establishment of ‘human rights’. The human rights movement rose to prominence after the two world wars and the end of colonial racism. Human rights have now become the moral foundation of the modern age, written into the constitution of the United Nations and recognized by international law.
Although many people around the world now consider human rights to be sacred, the truth is that humans have no natural or God given rights. Whatever political rights we now enjoy, previous generations had to fight and sometimes die for. And these rights could be taken away from us at any time by imperialist superpowers, religious fundamentalists, industrial military elitists, or any other group that would try to deceive and enslave us if they could.
We will forever be forced to keep fighting for whatever political rights we have gained. If there is anything sacred about human rights, it comes from the hopes of those who have suffered, and from the blood of those who have died fighting for the cause of freedom in the historic struggle against self-serving opportunists and ideological extremists.
The fight to define human rights is a political battle in which persuasion is the key weapon. For people with progressive ideals, human rights include the right to food and shelter, the right to education and healthcare, and the right to free and fair elections. And the battle for these rights will not end until they have been enshrined in international law and are guaranteed for every person in the world.