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...Second City rival, the Steppenwolf, but the Goodman Theatre is one of America's finest, most adventurous regional companies. Under artistic director Robert Falls, it has boosted the careers of such playwrights as Mary Zimmerman (The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci) and Rebecca Gilman (Spinning into Butter), and presented landmark revivals such as the 1999 Tony Award-winning Death of a Salesman, starring Brian Dennehy. This fall the Goodman rewards itself with a new home, a 170,000-sq.-ft., two-stage theater complex in downtown Chicago. Its inaugural production, King Hedley II, eighth in August Wilson's 10-play...
...landmark decision that opens the door for genetically engineered organisms to be patented in Canada, an Ottawa court ruled last week that Harvard is eligible for a patent on a trailblazing class of genetically altered mice...
...while the mouse means little to Harvard financially, the case it created, Harvard v. Commissioner of Patents, will be a landmark in Canadian patent...
...comfortable with using to examine human consciousness. Cognitive science is a burgeoning field that employs analytical frameworks running the gamut from computer algorithms to psychological models to biochemical pathways. Meanwhile, these latest tools for thinking about thinking fit into an even broader tradition of introspection. Where today clinical definitions landmark the boundaries of normal and abnormal cognition, the psychiatric case studies of the past were more likely to be described in a Shakespeare play or Dostoevsky novel than in the pages of a medical text...
...been waiting for 13 years to get a shot," he says. "I felt like 'Golly, I was shortchanged.'" He sent out a series of letters explaining his case to conservative advocacy groups and got a bite from Pat Robertson's American Center for Law and Justice. "This is a landmark case," says LeVake's pro-bono attorney, Frank Manion. "For the first time, we have a teacher who is not asking to teach creationism. He simply wants to teach science the way he thinks--and the way a lot of people think--it should be taught, in a more balanced...