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...effects of hurricanes,” Henry Gholz, the NSF’s LTER program director, said in a statement released this week. While the Harvard Forest also receives funding from other agencies, including NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy, the NSF grant will be the bulk of its funding. The money will also help the center develop “computer and cyber infrastructure tools for advanced data analysis,” Aaron M. Ellison, a senior research fellow at the center, said. The grant issued will be up for renewal in six years...
...into two categories: unsigned “staff editorials” that appear on the left-hand side of the editorial page each day, and signed op-eds, comments, columns, letters, and artwork that appear elsewhere. As an editorial board, we have two primary tasks: first, we comprise the bulk of the Crimson editors who debate the content of staff editorials; second, we solicit and edit signed content...
What was remarkable about his recent address on Islam is what most critics missed. The bulk of his message was directed at the West, at its disavowal of religious authority and its embrace of what Benedict called "the subjective 'conscience.'" For Benedict, if your conscience tells you something that differs from his teaching, it is a false conscience, a sign not of personal integrity but of sin. And so he has silenced conscientious dissent within the church and insisted on absolutism in matters like abortion, end-of-life decisions, priestly celibacy, the role of women, homosexuality and interfaith dialogue...
...worrying.'" But that is dangerous ground. Not worrying about what others think speaks to a splendid isolationism of the mind. Even if Europe doesn't have the heft it used to, the U.S. will find managing the rise of Asia's new powers much harder without help from the bulk of the most prosperous democracies. Even if the U.S. seems more and more like another planet to younger Europeans, the problems posed by Islamic radicalism and Iranian nuclear weapons, to say nothing of global warming, will fester if the U.S. is not involved in seeking solutions. So how could Europeans...
Still, the principle of gene-by-gene comparison remainsa powerful one, and just a year ago geneticists got hold of a long-awaited tool for making those comparisons in bulk. Although the news was largely overshadowed by the impact of Hurricane Katrina, which hit the same week, the publication of a rough draft of the chimp genome in the journal Nature immediately told scientists several important things. First, they learned that overall, the sequences of base pairs that make up both species' genomes differ by 1.23%--a ringing confirmation of the 1970s estimates--and that the most striking divergence...