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...full retreat for most of the middle years of the century. In 1958, however, two men began the counterattack on behalf of nature. Noam Chomsky, in his review of a book by the behaviorist B.F. Skinner, argued that it was impossible to learn human language by trial and error alone; human beings must come already equipped with an innate grammatical skill. Harry Harlow did a simple experiment that showed that a baby monkey prefers a soft, cloth model of a mother to a hard, wire-frame mother, even if the wire-frame mother provides it with all its milk; some...
While Bergman was stressed, Scribot was a wreck. She made one error after another, and Bergman cruised to the decisive 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 upset, punching Harvard’s ticket to Gainesville...
...This bug's genetic code is based on RNA, a single-stranded molecule very similar to DNA. Unlike DNA, however, RNA has no built-in proofreading mechanism to fix mistakes in the replication process. Most of these don't amount to anything, but every once in a while an error may make the microbe more infectious. Beyond that, says Dr. Robert Webster, chief of virology at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., "when a virus comes across to a new host, what does a virus do? It varies like crazy...
Sophomore shortstop Ian Wallace was heckled mercilessly by drunk Dartmouth frat boys after making a third-inning error in game one on Saturday, and when the games moved to O’Donnell Field on Sunday, a faint “WALL-ACE….WALL-ACE” could still be heard about once an inning...
...surgery. Today, the same techniques that could lead to voracious nanobots could also lead to effective new treatments for some of the world's most intractable diseases. The truth is, we simply don't know where new technologies will lead, and we can never be fully secure against scientific error or scientific terror. Today's advances offer tremendous possibilities and tremendous risks - and we're just going to have to learn to live with both...