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...feel that you asked Miss California a fair question, but do you regret the harsh treatment she received for answering her question honestly? - Barb McClintock, Houston I think by entering the Miss USA pageant, she made herself a public figure. If a civilian were to answer that question, would I think the response that she got was appropriate? No. But when you become a tabloid figure, which she did, the rules change. (See the top 10 beauty-pageant scandals...
Given that people have been thinking since the dawn of time, you may wonder why we suddenly need a book to teach us how to do so. Well, Sindell has an answer for that: "People have been running, too, for thousands of years. But if you want to be in the Olympics, it's generally a good idea to get a coach." (See 10 ways your job will change...
...bottom of whether a given idea has any real merit outside our own heads - or outside the lab or conference room, where a team may have been sweating over it - Sindell recommends continually asking, "Why?" As in, "Why is this a good idea?" To each subsequent answer, he says, ask "Why?" again, until you've gotten down to the bedrock that underlies your assumptions. Then look at your idea again. Is it still breathing...
...would act the same way as human embryonic stem cells, which were not created in a petri dish. "We don't know if iPS cells can do everything that normal human embryonic stem cells can do," says Lanza. "There are certainly a lot of questions we still have to answer." But having a population of stem cells that are safe for human use is an important step toward finding some of those answers...
...Harvard’s policy not to discuss information regarding individual students. Though Campbell said she is stopping short of accusing the University of outright racism, she said she believes she is being “singled out” because of her background. “The honest answer to that is that I’m black and I’m poor and I’m from New York and I walk a certain way and I keep my clothes a certain way,” Campbell told the Globe in response to a question about...