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Besides cloning a great mutt, in other words, the project may contribute insight into the old question of nature vs. nurture. It could also lead to the cloning of special rescue dogs and endangered canids like the Ethiopian wolf and African wild dog. At the A&M labs, a picture of Missy's cheerful mug hangs over the micromanipulator, where technicians inject her genetic code into eggs from donors whose own DNA is of no particular interest to anyone. The biggest problem is getting eggs. Because dogs randomly go into heat only every six months to a year, there...
College binge drinking is present in different degrees of severity on most college campuses. The Crimson staff has provided an important service by studying and openly discussing alcohol issues at Harvard. It has offered insight into the ways in which Harvard both stands apart from and is similar to other college campuses, including a close look at the factors that may tend to mitigate heavy drinking at Harvard as well as the second-hand effects of binge drinking on other members of the community. The latter focus, on the social consequences of alcohol consumption, is vital to identifying and solving...
Indeed, although the Core Committee claims that most departmental courses are significantly different from Core courses in ways that make them inadequate for teaching an "approach to knowledge," it provides little insight into what those differences are. Consequently, the petition process is rendered largely ornamental and provides little assistance for students wishing to broaden their academic horizons though courses more substantive and challenging than those offered by the Core...
...Core curriculum and its place within undergraduate education. Over the past six years, many prestigious universities-- including Princeton, Stanford and Duke--have overhauled their own graduation requirements. The arrival of the next president will offer us a rare opportunity to focus on undergraduate education with new vigor and fresh insight. Harvard led the way in 1979--it cannot afford to rest on its laurels any longer...
...Squireses spent their eight days in Cuba with Cross-Cultural Solutions, an educational and experiential travel organization based in New Rochelle, N.Y. CCS's Insight Programs offer behind-the-scenes, personalized explorations and feature access to places tourists usually don't see--a tour of Old Havana with a member of the Committee for the Defense of the Revolution, say, or dinner in a Cuban home. Since May, founder Steve Rosenthal, who says his fully licensed company is apolitical, has sent about 200 people, 60% of whom are over 55. "We've had such a long and interesting history with...