Word: leveller
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...percentage of applicants admitted last week to the Harvard-Radcliffe Class of 2003 fell to 11.3 percent, its lowest level ever, admissions officials said...
...fact, according to our own estimates, a 150-lb. adult would have to eat more than 1,000 lbs. of cheese a day, every single day, to reach the observable effect level that was found in laboratory testing. To represent this one-sided advocacy as a health story was a disservice to your readers. COURTNEY M. PRICE VICE PRESIDENT Chemical Manufacturers Association Arlington...
Drexler was an M.I.T. undergraduate studying genetic engineering in the mid-1970s when he had his epiphany: if you could engineer DNA on a molecular level, why not build machines out of atoms, program them to build more machines and so on, until you had millions of infinitesimal nanobots, endlessly restocking the food supply, say, or swarming through the bloodstream eradicating disease, or building skyscrapers from industrial waste? If nanotech was viable, it promised a gleaming future of virtually limitless wealth and endlessly renewable resources...
...much impact on our sense of what it is to be human as anything since Adam and Eve. Wilmut wanted to use his cloning technology to improve livestock. "I think we should trust the farmers," he said. Any experimentation with humans, he believed, should be kept strictly at the level of cells and proteins. It would be ethically unacceptable, he said, to use his technique to create a human clone...
Science fiction is a native 20th century art form that came of age at the same time as jazz. Like jazz, science fiction is very street-level, very American, rather sleazy, rather popular, with a long and somewhat recondite tradition. It's also impossible to avoid, no matter how hard...