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Most are trying variants on what the Dutch call gedogen--turning a blind eye. The authorities keep marijuana-possession statutes on the books to conform with a 1988 international convention that prohibits outright legalization and to avoid the political controversy of changing the law. But they opt for quite lenient...
Bush has compared the decision about federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research to a decision to commit troops to battle. This is biology spilled down a slippery slope; the arguments divide and subdivide and seemed to promise only injury to a rookie President not known for taking on the...
As an assistant professor at Harvard in the late 1950s, he proposed the radical notion that ant societies are bound together by an elaborate system of chemical signals. He went on to prove the existence of what are now called pheromones with an elegant experiment. Pied Piper-like, he lured...
Good thing they did. The experiment established that large molecules could be mechanically manipulated. "Until recently," says Robert Tjian, Bustamante's colleague at Berkeley, "we all studied complex molecular machines as populations--what we call bucket biochemistry." The approach has its uses, but it reveals little about how the machines...
Everything I read about the web these days is so funereal. Dot-bombs. Elegies for the good old days. F*ckedcompany.com. It's as though the web was some terrific science experiment that didn't pan out. People love to say the Internet is dead. And then of course there...