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...heck with creating new life-forms. Venter should channel his energies into constructing a chromosome for extant humans that would help us store critical life-enhancing information - like anniversaries, passwords, account balances and payment-due dates. That would truly benefit mankind. John Herman, Dix Hills, New York...
...influence vanishing at a Papal penstroke appears to have been too much for the mythic sensibility of the West, which wanted to believe that the Templars must somehow have survived, adapted, or been subsumed into another, even more secretive trans-national group. Over the centuries, the allegedly still-extant order has been portrayed as malevolent, benign, heroic and occult. Organizations all over the world, without any direct connection, have appropriated its name. (The Freemasons reportedly have an "Order of the Knights of Templar," thus consummating a kind of conspiracy theorist's dream marriage.) Such homages should not obscure the fact...
...inspire Harvard’s fake.A WORLDLY BIRDThe beginnings of the faux dodo are older than the University itself.According to Lecturer on Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Andrew Berry, Portuguese and Dutch traders colonized the species’ home island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean starting in 1598.The first extant report of a dodo was penned by an English diplomat named Thomas Herbert who sailed to Mauritius in 1629.Five years later, Herbert recounted, “Here only is generated the Dodo, which for shape and rareness may antagonise the Phoenix of Arabia: her body is round...
...another report stalled—showed signs of promise when a draft was released in October and when a final version was released in February. Finally, it seemed, the general education requirements for Harvard undergraduates would be endowed with a uniting principle. Gone would be the days of the extant Core’s cornucopia of obscurities, masquerading as “modes of inquiry” somehow relevant and necessary to our liberal education. No more “Lit & Arts B-48: Chinese Imaginary Space.” No more “Science B-57: Dinosaurs...
...country’s problems. Despite Iran’s difficulties, its people are strongly connected to their country and will not “let Iran become another Iraq,” Ebadi said. She emphasized that Iranians must themselves fight against Iran’s extant patriarchal culture. Ebadi further commented on the U.S.’s role on the international stage, criticizing U.S. opposition to the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the country’s refusal to sign the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Because...