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...human genome sequence may be complete, but scientists are years away from understanding how all 40,000 genes function and interact...
Blogs have become the supreme information filter, replacing in function the ineffective software that was supposed to help us avoid information overload by supplying us only with information we want. Such software is imprecise, but find a blogger, you like and you will almost always find interesting the links and posts he makes to his blog. Taken together, blogs represent a new addition to the media landscape, filtering the wheat from the chaff, elevating marginal issues to national importance and calling the mistakes of the mainstream media with unrelenting scrutiny (Ira Stoll ’94, former President...
...since most buildings have been endowed by alumni for specific purposes, renovating them or changing their function may not be possible, Friedson said. He said administrators are currently consulting alumni to determine the extent of flexibility FAS will have in altering athletic buildings...
...they all had something else: human capital. Over the past 20 years, economists have come to believe that a central determinant of a nation's economic growth is the skill base and entrepreneurial moxie of those who live there. Human capital is a function of education, which is why successful Asian tigers (like Singapore) and fast-growing developing countries (like Mozambique) put so much stress on the quality of their schools. German schools and universities used to be the envy of the world, especially in math and science. But the country has been shocked by a couple of recent reports...
Spielberg places kids at the heart of E.T., and properly so. In a way, the choice is one of artistic convenience, because Spielberg has never really grown up. He has little insight into how mature characters function, and it shows in this film: Elliot’s single mother, who remains ignorant of E.T.’s presence far longer than she realistically could (a scene in which her daughter blatantly announces a speaking, moving E.T.’s proximity to her requires the mother to be improbably dense); the kindly scientist, who serves solely as a personal...