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Elleholm thinks Aresa will have a reliable land-mine-detecting thale-cress in about two years and hopes to apply similar biotech to detect larger, unexploded ordnance and eventually to cull antibodies from plants. But first it will focus on land mines. If it succeeds, Aresa will make thale-cress a weed that will be welcomed...
...edge, in keeping with her buttoned-up demeanor. In her memoir, Living History, she writes that she was tasked in grade school with keeping the "incorrigible boys" in line, a role that seems entirely in character. Conservatives bristle at the sense of being told what to do, and they detect a tone of moral superiority in her advocacy of children's programs and health care. When she says, "It takes a village," they hear an implicit threat to have government impinge on their prerogatives as parents...
...absurd” and “ridiculous.” “When they have to check my musical instrument for books, it gets annoying,” said Natalie D. Bau ’09. “They already have an electronic sensor to detect books that weren’t checked out. If I were going to take the trouble to demagnetize my book, I’d also take the trouble to stick it in my coat.” The security measures, including the guard desks, have been in place for over...
...bomb attacks in Portland, Phoenix and Guam. More than 15,000 people will participate, from Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff to local mayors, police officers and nurses. Professional make-up artists will create oozing "wounds" for volunteer victims, and equipment will be flown in from across the country to detect and contain the "contamination...
...vaccine, only 38 percent of females had talked with a female physician about it. 37 percent of women surveyed had never had a pap test. In fact, 26 percent of these women did not know where to go if they wanted to get one at Harvard. Pap tests help detect abnormalities early when they’re the most treatable and when they’re the least lethal. Combine the high rate of HPV among women our age with Harvard’s low pap test rate, and there is clearly a problem...