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...breaks down after 60,000 years or so, making the possibility of a real Jurassic Park scenario - complete with flying pterodons and bloodthirsty tyrannosaurs - remote. Still, scientists see the completion of the genome as the first step to uncovering and understanding the reasons behind the mammoths' extinction, and the effort has brought the cloning question back to the public's mind in a (ahem) mammoth...
Around 40 students gathered for an early interfaith Thanksgiving dinner at Hillel last night. The meal, a joint effort by Hillel and the Catholic Student Association, also drew members from Harvard Baha’i Association, the Latter-day Saints Student Association, the Harvard College Buddhist Community, and the Harvard Islamic Society. Chef Brian’s kosher vegetable stuffing was a favorite among diners, who also chose from an array of holiday staples like butternut squash, mashed potatoes, and cranberry sauce. One student, Kamille C. Washington ’10, said that she especially appreciated that kosher foods tend...
...findings could facilitate more accurate predictions of Alzheimer’s and provide “new biological pathways” towards therapies for the disease, according to Harvard Medical School Professor Rudolph E. Tanzi, who led the effort...
...allows foreign vessels to enter Somalia’s territorial waters and use “all necessary means” to combat piracy, a ruling that does not apply to other pirate hotspots such as Vietnam or Indonesia. While this resolution was a good start, a more concerted effort to stamp out piracy should be created through an international naval peacekeeping mission that controls waterways much like land-based peacekeeping missions...
...just as worrisome as any financial arrangements would be Bill Clinton's ongoing relationships with world leaders and his predilection for offering advice - as he did in 2006, when Dubai sought help in a controversial attempt to acquire six terminals in U.S. ports. (Hillary, a leader in the effort to block the deal that she called an "unacceptable risk" to national security, later said she was unaware that Bill had been coaching the other side.) Ex-Presidents always have that potential; Jimmy Carter has complicated life for every President since he left office. But should Hillary...