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...faculty member of the CFA and professor of Science A-35, “Matter and the Universe,” Kirshner is currently researching an entity called “dark matter,” which he believes acts directly against gravity and is causing expansion of the universe to accelerate...
...American tradition of wartime leadership seems more subdued. The most memorable images are gaunt and painful: the haunted Lincoln; the dark circles under Franklin Roosevelt's eyes; Kennedy standing alone, in shadows, during the Cuban missile crisis. This is a moment far more ambiguous than any of those; intellectual anguish is permissible. War may be the correct choice, but it can't be an easy one. The world might have more confidence in the judgment of this President if he weren't always bathed in the blinding glare of his own certainty...
...They are very worrisome, especially the incidents in which the assailant attacked the victims with a knife,” Ware wrote in an e-mail. “I have cautioned our students to walk home with friends or take the shuttle after dark...
...levels the playing field - and the level field has fungus on it. Every tinhorn with a chemistry set becomes a potential world-historical force with more discretionary destructive power at hand than the great old monsters, from Caligula to Stalin, ever had. In the new dimension, micro-evil (the dark impulse to rape or murder, say) and macro-evil (the urge to genocide) achieve an ominous reunion in any bid for the apocalyptic gesture. That's the real evil that is going around...
...used in attacking AIDS and cancer as well as in organ replacements. It will basically be used for all currently intractable diseases. Drugs will be more specific, more powerful, and they will come from a much deeper knowledge of the relevant biology. They won't be shots in the dark as some are today...