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...movement is finding aggressive new allies in the medical profession. The American Academy of Pediatrics has called for a total gun ban; the American Medical Association wants to ban hollow-point bullets and raise taxes on gun sales. "Surgeons have been removing bullets since the invention of gunpowder," observes Franklin Zimring, a professor of law and director of the Earl Warren Legal Institute at the University of California, Berkeley, "but this is the first time you find a professional constituency like that involved in changing policy toward guns...
Hershberg's work tells the full story of how the chemistry professor who served as president of Harvard from 1933 to 1953 was a key advisor in President Franklin D. Roosevelt's decision to approve a crash effort to build the atom bomb...
Harvard has a special responsibility to campaign against nuclear weapons, Forrow says. He cites former Harvard President James B. Conant '13, who acted as science adviser to President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 and oversaw the construction and deployment of the atomic bomb during World...
...when / there is always going to be a lot of clamor and criticism, is to be able to take all this barrage of criticism seriously but not personally. In other words, you have to listen to the people who are criticizing you because they're right sometimes. And Benjamin Franklin said long ago, Our enemies are our friends, for they show us our faults...
What he'd choose, given a choice of vodka or women: Benjamin Franklin is my role model, and I believe he would take women over vodka. Uh, that means I guess I would do the same...