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...Bush's sense of national greatness has been misguided, his impulse is perfectly American: the U.S. has always thought of itself as something special, has always sought new national challenges in order to "form a more perfect union." It is a frontier impulse firmly rooted in the American DNA, subtly essential to the nation's growth. The mere "pursuit of happiness" can never be enough; we must also go to the moon. Ten years ago, the political writer David Brooks decided that there was a need for "national greatness," for larger national goals, but as a conservative, he had trouble...
None of these agents are quite ready for the pharmacy yet, and until they are, researchers are focusing on new ways to maximize the power of drugs we do have. By studying bacterial DNA, scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory are decoding the genetic battle plans that the bugs use to develop resistance. These secrets can help doctors prescribe antibiotics more effectively by knowing which strains are most susceptible to which drugs...
Number of men who have been exonerated in the U.S. on the basis of DNA evidence since the beginning of the Innocence Project in 1992. Collectively, they served 2,496 years...
...religion can never really be “put to rest” at Harvard, for it is in our institutional DNA and, with very few exceptions, all of our presidents before 1869 were clergymen. Our senior governing board, the Overseers, still has as one of its honorifics, “The Reverend,” and our most solemn assemblies are usually opened and closed with prayer. When I teach my Harvard history course, many are surprised by the large role that religion played in the foundation of the University, and shocked to learn that Henry Dunster, our first...
...DNA evidence, however, does not guarantee an individual's immediate exoneration. Prosecutors in Union County could re-try Halsey, although "it's inconceivable that there would be another trial in this case," Plotkin says. In most cases, the evidence is so convincing that prosecutors do not choose to hold a retrial, athough they do have that option. According to Neufeld, none of the 201 exonerations have resulted in a guilty verdict after a retrial. Bob Keller, the district attorney in the case of Calvin Johnson, who served more than 15 years in a Georgia prison for a rape he didn...