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...Massachusetts Dream for Darfur will help keep the focus on China. As an emerging superpower and the host of the 2008 Olympic games, China has to think about its public image. But there will be no progress so long as the United States, the U.K., and France themselves fail...
...Crick, discovered the structure of DNA—addressed his time at Harvard, praised polygamy, poked fun at Bass Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel, and discussed the state of science today. He told the audience that he entered science because “I’d probably fail at anything else,” and, in an interview with The Crimson after his speech, said that as a result of discovering the double-helix, he knew that “I probably didn’t have to worry about my long-term future—someone...
People throughout the nation are going ga-ga for Barack Obama. Many see his novel politics of hope as the cure for a toxic Washington culture of partisanship and corruption. What many fail to realize is that a number of politicians just like Obama have recently sprung up throughout the country...
...people who are making criticism, Rwandans and foreigners, I would say: take a moment, and look at what we went through. [The type of experience] that would make many countries failed states. But we didn't fail. A country where a million people have been lost. A country which has really been shattered beyond what you could imagine. A country that had 3 million people displaced. Every institution completely destroyed. Starting not from zero, but below. And we had to bring these people back together, people whose minds and hearts were seriously wounded...
...pictures of space, the go-to telescope is the Hubble, in orbit above the earth. But astronomers can't just use the space telescope whenever they feel like it; they have to bid for time on the badly oversubscribed instrument. After about 2010, when the aging Hubble starts to fail, astronomers won't be able...