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...saner or more truthful, those immeasurable human qualities that are extolled by priests and poets, but just better at handling elaborate graphics, say, or performing multimillion-variable calculations. Assuming that we can keep up with these machines, where will it take us as a society? When the shared ideal is to be like Mr. Spock instead of Dr. Spock, and to emulate Dr. Jonas Salk rather than Marcus Welby, M.D., who will stroke humanity's fevered forehead? No one, I fear, unless we use our brainpower to develop an altruism pill...
...competition her sport has to offer as the Americans seek to reclaim the top spot on the medal stand from Canada. And above all, she will embody the essence of the Games: an amateur athlete cooperating and participating among her international peers, striving to fulfill the Olympic motto and ideal of “swifter, higher, stronger.”As we embark upon this New Year, there are many easy opportunities for pessimism and skepticism.The situation in Israel, with the impending passing of Primer Minister Ariel Sharon, may get worse before it gets better. There are wars raging, diseases...
This plug-and-play approach borrows from gene therapy, in which tiny pieces of DNA are delivered directly to circulating immune cells in the bloodstream. The DNA packets are painted onto tiny gold pellets (an ideal delivery medium) and shot into the body at supersonic speeds with the press of a button on a gene gun. "In the event of a pandemic, you don't need health-care workers to deliver this vaccine," says Clive Dix, PowderMed CEO. "You could train people in 10 minutes." Early safety studies showed promising results, and PowderMed hopes to continue testing its vaccine against...
...Prized Paleness Alex Perry's letter from Bombay, "Could You Please Make Me a Shade Lighter?" [Dec. 5], reported that the desire for a lighter skin color is a national obsession in India. But Indians are not the only people who view fair skin as an ideal. It is no secret that many throughout the world feel the same way. Indeed, most of mankind does. Some of us as children were exposed to fairy tales like Snow White, in which the wicked queen asks, "Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?" Nizam Virmani Rolling Meadows...
...journalists. Those selected as Knight lecturers receive a $200,000 grant, which they can use to research at the university of their choice. Carroll had already planned to do research at Harvard under a fellowship awarded to him by the Shorenstein Center, but said the KSG is also an ideal atmosphere for the research he is interested in conducting for the lectureship. “I think there are a lot of people around Harvard who I can learn from,” Carroll said. “I’m interested in journalism and public policy and there...