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Khan questioned whether parents should be able to insert a “Harvard Gene” into their children prior to birth. He hypothesized about Kaplan Test Prep’s opening a biogenetics division to sell such a procedure...
Kerry begins coolly: "Some of these issues are very complicated and deserve more than a simplistic this or that," says the diplomat's son, the diligent student of policy and history practically from birth, the 19-year veteran of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the Davos regular with his Rolodex fat with kings and prime ministers and experts of all stripes. But as he speaks, Kerry heats up, grows loud, almost angry. His message shifts: Don't for a moment think all that worldliness means he has no convictions. Or that he is weak or a waffler or a political...
Correa may have helped dupe her relatives because she appeared to be pregnant in 1997. Relatives say she told them she had given birth to a baby girl at her house on Dec. 12, three days before the alleged kidnapping. Her boyfriend at the time, Andre Moore, says he pressed his ear against Correa's naked, bulging belly and felt kicking. So what happened to the baby Correa seemed to be carrying? Says Moore: "I have no idea." He said he learned Aaliyah was not his child when he requested a paternity test in 1999. The Philadelphia city council will...
...capital of beauty. And this spring, half a dozen Paris museums are offering a sweeping survey of artistic beauty through the centuries, from medieval mysteries to contemporary concepts of the artist as odd man out. The whirlwind of new exhibits kicked off with Joan Miró (1917-1934), The Birth of the World, which runs until June 28 at the Centre Georges Pompidou, offering almost 240 paintings, drawings, sculptures, collages and constructions from the Catalan artist's early years, as he constantly experimented with themes, technique, style and color. The show's title is borrowed from a 1925 painting...
Singer-songwriters are as old as literature itself. Before any poem was committed to paper, it was the object of the bard, the oral poet, who, accompanied by instrumentation, entertained willing audiences. A little before the turn of the first millennium B.C., the mysterious Homer gave birth to Western literature with song as his medium. For many years thereafter it was unthinkable to hear poetry without accompanying music...