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...that is through cloning, and ACT scientists took the first steps in that direction by two different techniques. In one, they stimulated an unfertilized egg to begin dividing on its own. In the other, they removed the nucleus from a donated egg and inserted that of an adult--the same method used to produce Dolly the sheep, the world's first mammalian clone...
...that Charleton Heston really was Moses, I may not be in a position to pass judgment on the damage Hollywood can inflict on a young mind. But as the mother of a typical adolescent, I have to say that movies can lead a child to books, though sometimes an adult needs to illuminate...
Bonnie Kunzel, head of the Young Adult Library Services Association and an expert in fantasy literature, says, "In libraries, the most successful promotion we do is to ask people to 'read a movie,'" meaning a book that kids have first experienced on the screen. The Harry Potter movie has led to a bump in reading of the already popular Harry Potter books, which has led young readers to C.S. Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia) and Tolkien. "We can't keep Lord of the Rings on the shelf," Kunzel says. Tolkien purists who can't bear to see images of Middle...
...allows students to ignorantly assume that the chance of infection is slim. (Despite this academic excellence, one would hope that students still assume their fellow Harvardians fertile enough for accidental pregnancy). Nationwide, 45 million people ages 12 and older—one of five of the total adolescent and adult population—are infected with HSV-2. If America was reduced to your 20 person Economics section, four of them would test positive. Harvard students get herpes; Harvard students get pregnant. Harvard students even get HIV. So be shocked, because infection from unprotected sex is highly possible. With AIDS...
...adult versions of the Tenenbaum children, Stiller, Paltrow and Wilson do fine jobs with their roles. Murray, so dryly funny in Rushmore, is given surprisingly little to do as Margot’s husband Raleigh St. Clair...