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What next? Two scoops of "Smart Genes" in Kellogg's Raisin Bran? There is a thin line between medical achievements for neurological diseases and manipulating nature's way.
Stephen Jay Gould's article on smart genes [THE I.Q. GENE?, Sept. 13] was informative and clarifying, but when did he make the memory association between "a bee's buzz and the pain of its bite"? Or are American bees just that bit further up the dental evolutionary scale than...
DIED. DR. WILLIAM ECKERT, 73, forensic pathologist; of congestive heart failure; in New Orleans; on Sept. 17. Eckert, who worked on the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy and the Charles Manson murders, was a pioneer who encouraged collaboration between law-enforcement and forensics teams.
"We've got to improve education at every level," says Varian, "including elementary, high school, college and, most important, continuing and on-the-job education." Otherwise, a worsening skills shortage could dim the promise that the Internet will help narrow the gap between rich and poor. The gap could get...
Federal, state and local governments already play a major role in education and thus may hold the key to solving one crucial question hanging over IT's future. Actually, there are two questions: Will schools produce as many trained people as will be needed, and will enough of those technically...