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Reconciling his belief with his service to genetics proved easier for him than for many of his colleagues. Upon discovering the fibrosis flaw, he remembers feeling that "God had rained down his blessing." But in a profession only 8% of whose élite admit to believing in a God who answers prayer, he found that God talk could be something of a taboo. "Bring up faith and there's always a little sense of, Didn't you get the memo?" At least once a month he receives an e-mail from some lonely post-doc asking advice on being...
...watch. A senior Administration official tells TIME that the White House wants to set up new systems that will use efforts at democracy building as a condition for foreign aid and as a criterion for judging the work of U.S. ambassadors. But some officials inside the White House admit that the Administration's attention appears sporadic, limited to calling for elections but then failing to follow through on the tougher, more costly and less glamorous work of building institutions that can sustain democracies. Michael O'Hanlon, a senior foreign policy fellow at the Brookings Institution, says, "The Administration...
...Brennand Mueller notes many applicants find it disquieting that the criteria changes from year to year. “What we admit one year from a given school, you could do almost the same exact things and we might not taken you the next year given the strength of the pool and how that class is coming together,” she says. “It’s not an ideal answer to people. People always want absolutes...
...notes that one way in which an admit can have a negative effect and potentially be a “mistake” is if they destabilize students around them. “If you’ve ever seen rooming groups disintegrate, that can really affect a number of people, it can affect a whole entryway,” he says...
...fight in the boy made it a task fit for a hero. No medals were awarded, and I confess I did not think of him as much of a hero that first night. But he has lived 25 years with that chase. And 25 years removed, I can admit that I might have chased...