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Prize-Winning Variation Harvard Medical School professor Charles Lee has been awarded the 2008 Ho-Am Prize in Medicine for his discovery of unexpected variations in the human genome, according to the Broad Institute...
...that is—when we’re trying to pick someone up at a bar. (It works. Sometimes.) Of course, we’re deeply (but secretly) pleased every time the Harvard admissions rate loses a point or two—we’re only human, after all. But as far as the rest of the world is concerned, we think that the whole charade of Harvard admissions is a wicked crap-shoot, that denying 93 percent of (presumably) well-qualified applicants the chance at a Harvard education is sinister, and that we need all the transfer...
...find reflected in a sociopath many of the tendencies of American society at large. The account raises questions about many of this country’s principles and institutions that linger long after the book is put down. By presenting Hogue in all of his complexity, as a human and not just a criminal, Samuels gives no easy answers. —Staff writer Katherine L. Miller can be reached at kmiller@fas.harvard.edu...
...freedom may be fine for a priest but constricting for an academic whose findings contradict Church teachings, Benedict had an answer: it's time to reconsider what you mean by truth. "Truth means more than knowledge," he commented. "Only in faith can truth become incarnate and reason truly human." And "the truths of faith and reason never contradict one another." There may be some Catholic educators who have trouble with that simple equation. But for now, they're probably happy that the Pope is bandying words rather than taking action...
...this month. "This is the largest fire of this kind we've ever seen," said Interior Minister Florencio Randazzo in an emergency press conference at the Casa Rosada presidential palace. "It was started by farmers clearing land for cattle grazing driven by greed for profit with total disregard for human life." The President was just as harsh. "This is not a natural disaster, this is the result of certain aspects of human nature, irrationaity and irresponsibility...