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...pressure classes along these lines, taught by some of Harvard's maintenance staff, might be both diverting and useful for your entire life. It would also introduce you to teachers who have something good to impart, even though they do not have Ph.D's. JOHN PLOTZ '69 Berkeley, Calif., March...
...pressure classes along these lines, taught by some of Harvard's maintenance staff, might be both diverting and useful for your entire life. It would also introduce you to teachers who have something good to impart, even though they do not have Ph.D...
...gene therapists were to cure relatively straightforward genetic disorders, such as Huntington's disease and sickle-cell anemia, that are caused by a single defective gene. The strategy was simple: substitute a normal gene for a faulty one. But scientists quickly realized that adding genes to cells could also impart new functions to those cells. That may lead to the genetic treatment of a host of other disorders, including heart disease and many forms of cancer...
...University in 1973 begun rearranging DNA molecules in test tubes (and, equally important, reinserting the novel DNA segments back into living cells) than critics began likening these "recombinant" DNA procedures to the physicist's power to break apart atoms. Might not some of the test-tube-rearranged DNA molecules impart to their host cells disease-causing capacities that, like nuclear weapons, are capable of seriously disrupting human civilization? Soon there were cries from both scientists and nonscientists that such research might best be ruled by stringent regulations--if not laws...
...most likely have scurried past the names of Harvard's casualties in the Civil War in Memorial Hall on your way to lecture in Sanders. As a student you are of the prime age not only for imbibing, but for military service, a message that alumni tried to impart...