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...could possibly be qualified for their course. It disturbs me to think there are professors who don't want to take the time to have their students present their interests and qualifications on paper, so that they can make informed decisions about people rather than things. They would rather construct objective mechanisms of exclusion whereby they can say anybody born a Rabbit, Dragon, or Pig is out. --Jed Silverstein...
...hope of the prosecutors to construct a case that dashes the current good feelings of Jones and McVeigh. The brief the Justice Department filed laid out in detail some of the ways they intend to do that, but it raised a potential problem with regard to John Doe No. 2. Identification of that individual is crucial because it forecloses the possibility that the suspected McVeigh accomplice is still at large. That the Justice Department had dismissed John Doe No. 2 was not news; back in June 1995 it announced that it had called off its manhunt. The news detailed...
...researchers explore the once hidden links between brain activity and brain structure, they are beginning to construct a sturdy bridge over the chasm that previously separated genes from the environment. Experts now agree that a baby does not come into the world as a genetically preprogrammed automaton or a blank slate at the mercy of the environment, but arrives as something much more interesting. For this reason the debate that engaged countless generations of philosophers--whether nature or nurture calls the shots--no longer interests most scientists. They are much too busy chronicling the myriad ways in which genes...
...adult system but more like a tadpole that gives rise to a frog. Among other things, the cells produced in the neural tube must migrate to distant locations and accurately lay down the connections that link one part of the brain to another. In addition, the embryonic brain must construct a variety of temporary structures, including the neural tube, that will, like a tadpole's tail, eventually disappear...
Perhaps by the time Judge completes his next big project, the girls will be old enough to become fans. He is about to begin writing a script for a live-action comedy film he hopes to direct. Its subject? The eerie modern construct that is the suburban office park. Maybe someday Judge could do a catchy musical about aluminum siding...