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...free and available to everyone. Imagine a legion of cancer researchers on smart drugs, racing toward a cure. Or how about a better class of Wall Street executives, blessed with improved thinking and wiser judgment? Considering the torrent of negative public responses to the Nature editorial, however, many Americans appear to regard enhancement as cheating, unnatural or a rationalization of drug abuse. But ask these bioethicists, and they'll say it's not cheating at all - as long as everyone has fair and free access...
...separate statement, Apple's board said, "If there ever comes a day when Steve wants to retire or for other reasons cannot continue to fulfill his duties as Apple's chief executive, you will know it." In the end, of course, until Jobs actually does appear somewhere looking healthy - a cameo appearance at Macworld would be awesome - people will fret. As they should: the world will be a diminished place when Jobs steps down from Apple for good...
...hoping that Jobs will appear at a small get-together set to occur in a few weeks in Palo Alto. There, the team who developed the original Macintosh computer will gather to celebrate the 25th anniversary of that seminal desktop computer. Needless to say, Jobs has been invited. But even if he is healthy, it's far from certain that he'll attend. He rarely goes to Apple anniversary parties. To quote one of the invitees: "The old joke about Steve is he only shows up at the parties that he throws...
...half, the Crimson entered the locker room with just a two-point edge. Green paced UCSB with 10 of her 16 points before the break. The two squads traded baskets for most of the second half, and only in the waning minutes did Harvard appear to be in trouble. Two straight baskets from Kat Suderman (10 points) put the Gauchos up seven, setting the stage for the Crimson’s last-minute heroics. —Staff writer Emily W. Cunningham can be reached at ecunning@fas.harvard.edu...
...drones giving Israeli commanders real-time images of the battle space for thousands of yards ahead of the lead bulldozer. Although Hamas had hoped to draw Israeli forces into hand-to-hand combat in the narrow warrens of Gaza's densely populated cities and refugee camps, the Israelis appear instead to be heading for the high ground, looking to seize strategic hilltops that would allow them to better control those parts of Gaza in which Hamas fighters are mingling with the civilian population...