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During the last two weeks, McCarthy has become a scientific celebrity for his work in bridging the gap between science and policy...
Captain Erik Anderson was unable to play due to an ankle injury, but it looks like the Saints are filling in the gap in the offense...
This current spat has gone according to form. Mansfield has been very consistent about grade inflation. He said the same thing in 1993 in Harvard Magazine, at a time when the SAT gap between black admits and white admits was larger than it is now. Mansfield is very savvy, so he must have had some idea that his recent comments would raise a row. They did, courtesy of the e-mail discussion list of the Black Student Association (BSA). Several students, in delightful vituperation, wrote screeds protesting the fact that they even heard the comments, as if such discourse ought...
...scientists speculate. The team that cloned Dolly waited until she was seven months old to announce her existence. Creating her took 277 tries, and right up until her birth, scientists around the world were saying that cloning a mammal from an adult cell was impossible. "There's a significant gap between what scientists are willing to talk about in public and their private aspirations," says British futurist Patrick Dixon. "The law of genetics is that the work is always significantly further ahead than the news. In the digital world, everything is hyped because there are no moral issues?there...
...Oslo, the greatest trophy of Arafat's career, is history. The gap in expectations turned out to be too wide for Israelis and Palestinians to close, the peace process itself too flawed to produce a magic solution. Even if Sharon comes and goes, as Barak, Netanyahu, Peres and Rabin did before him, Arafat must discover a new way of dealing with the Israelis. Otherwise, he will never persuade them to give the Palestinians what they want. Many Palestinians believe their fortunes will improve only when Arafat's domination of their affairs ends. "Democracy is needed," says Haider Abdel Shafi...