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...comp is a deliberate decision, a reaction to the Big Three’s notoriously long and sometimes grueling try-out processes. “The general feeling with us is that the comp process is rather sadistic. [It] makes things too regimented,” says Tim R. Hwang ‘08, who would be executive president of Present! if such a title existed. “The only requirement is to find...
Nowadays, thanks in large part to an understanding of how difficult both technologies actually are - and partly also to the human-cloning fraud perpetrated by the Korean scientist Hwang Woo Suk in 2004 - scientists are a lot more skeptical about the significance of each new claim. That's why there hasn't been so much excitement about a report published online Thursday by the journal Stem Cells. The authors claim to have created cloned human embryos that they believe are capable of producing stem cells - the raw material for all of the body's specialized tissues, from heart to muscle...
...Hwang ’08, despite boasting a one-two punch of Harvard’s most popular concentrations—government, with a secondary field in economics—is a campus figure without parallel. Every Harvard class has its ultra-popular John F. Kennedy ’40 and its budding mogul Steven A. Ballmer ’77, but a man who tapes a giant poster of an eye in his Canaday common room window and threatens passersby via bullhorn with pseudo-totalitarian sayings is in a league...
...therefore should be concerned if illegal content is being passed over networks.” Steven L. Worona, director of policy and networking programs for a nonprofit called Educause, said universities should be able to craft their own anti-piracy policies, rather than using blanket legislation. Tim R. Hwang ’08, member of Harvard Free Culture, said the bill compromised the role of educators. “[W]hen universities violate the privacy of students...they’re complicit in a kind of legalized thuggery that poisons their role as educational institutions,” he wrote...
Somatic nuclear transfer is the process Hwang and his team claimed to have successfully performed in early 2004. Late the following year, Hwang’s research was discredited, as were other claims that he had cloned a dog. The disgraced scientist was also fired from his post at Seoul National University...