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...Meanwhile, writer-reporter Brian Bennett and contributing reporter Andrew Perrin both flew to Kuta, ground zero of the Oct. 12 blasts, to construct the definitive account of that night. Shocked by the devastation they encountered, both sought the only shelter at hand?their work. "At first I was trying to hold it together," says Bennett, "but then after seeing yet another body and another person breaking down, it finally got to me. I had to walk out of interviews shaking my head and taking deep breaths." For Perrin, an Australian, being on the scene where so many of his countrymen...
South Asian political specialist Gower Rizvi took over as director of the Kennedy School of Government’s (KSG) Institute for Government Innovation Tuesday, and quickly announced plans to construct a long-term vision for the fledgling institute...
...November, he’ll fly to Afghanistan as part of his foundation’s efforts to construct a radio station in Kandahar...
Babies born with an X and a Y chromosome are often raised female despite the Y. The problem is that, as tissue engineering technology stands now, it is impossible to reconstruct male genitals out of meager amounts of penile tissue. But it is possible to construct normal female genitals out of what ambiguously gendered males have at birth...
Technologist Eric Drexler envisioned a future in which machines far smaller than dust motes would construct everything from chairs to rocket engines, atom by atom; in which microscopic robots would heal human ills, cell by cell. Sixteen years after the publication of Drexler's book Engines of Creation, the molecular-scale technologies most immediately available to consumers are somewhat less fantastic: stain-resistant khakis and more durable tennis balls...