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...Discomfort in the Lab Michael Kinsley said the moral dilemma over embryonic stem cells is not real and never was [Dec.10]. That is not the view of James Thomson, who was the first scientist to isolate human embryonic stem cells and who observed that "if human embryonic-cell research does not make you a little bit uncomfortable, you have not thought about it enough." Would I be more certain about the lack of moral questions related to this research if I suffered from Parkinson's disease, as Kinsley does? I doubt it. My mother died with the disease...
...surveying his colleagues in the lab, Peyerl saw many of their careers stalling...
...According to Segal, the purpose of I^3 is to encourage the people who have outstanding ideas but who have never had the resources to pursue them. The main sponsors of the competition are the McKinley Family, the Heller Family Foundation, TECH, Highland Capital Partners, and the Idea Translation Lab at Harvard. I^3 plans to hold its launch party Saturday at the Queen’s Head Pub. To emphasize the multitrack and innovative nature of the challenge, the event will feature trivia, Lego-building, and “crazy idea” generation competitions...
...seem cluttered with statues rather than actors. For example, when Titus renounces his children, one would expect his sons to be grief-stricken at both their father’s anger and their brother’s death. Instead, they expressionlessly examine the corpse as though it were a lab cadaver...
...system used by MC Yan is known as L.A.S.E.R. Tag and is a creation of the Graffiti Research Lab (GRL), a New York City art group founded in 2005 to outfit the world's street artists with innovative, open-source technology. Given that L.A.S.E.R. Tag can be operated from hundreds of feet away, the opportunities for subversion are tantalizing. A message can be written on the face of a major public building and the perpetrators long gone before the authorities pinpoint where the laser came from. In a more everyday context, L.A.S.E.R. Tag's ability to allow artists...