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...Dull and Duller Re your 10 questions with Bobby Jindal [March 16]: If I hear another Republican politician spout the talking point that health care should be between patient and doctor and not a bureaucrat, I'm going to pull out what little hair I have left. My wife and I are self-employed. Our health-care costs eat up much of our annual income, and neither of us has a chronic illness. I would much rather have a bureaucracy deliver affordable coverage at whatever inconvenience than be squeezed dry by rapacious Republican-loving drug and insurance companies. Mark Dunn...
...application of preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), choosing many of a child’s characteristics is now possible, according to Dr. Jeffrey Steinberg of the Los Angeles-based IVF Fertility Center. Using PGD, Steinberg and company have claimed to be able to screen for certain cosmetic characteristics, such as hair and eye color, and to modify them...
Yeah, that answer surprised us too. The lecture hall was packed almost to capacity with a handful of undergraduates and an overwhelming number of crossword enthusiasts from the Boston area, easily identified by graying hair, thick glasses, and/or crossword paraphernalia. One woman wore a crossword grid scarf. Another carried a crossword grid tote bag. Flyby began to feel a little boxed in by all the black-and-white squares...
Once upon a time, a young physics concentrator with a penchant for cakes and a talented artist with a smile as big as his tower of hair flew to Paris on a mission to unveil inhalable chocolate to the world. By day they scoured the finest boutiques in Paris for chocolate to use in their product. Money was no object. By night they stayed in a beautiful hotel near the Louvre. When they had all their supplies, the artist and the scientist hand-ground chocolate in preparation for their invention’s big reveal. The day finally came...
...power of relics: "When the Taliban first attempted to take control of Afghanistan in 1996, they knew where to begin. The Taliban leader Mullah Omar demanded to be let into a shrine containing relics of Prophet Muhammad: hair from his beard, and a cloak he is said to have worn. Seizing the cloak, Mullah Omar went to the roof of the shrine and slid his hands into the sleeves, holding the garment before him for everyone to see. To the crowd watching it looked like he had gone into the relic chamber and come out transformed into the Prophet himself...