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...recent White House report on stem cell science that, they claim, has misrepresented their studies on alternatives for research using human embryonic cells. Published by the United States Domestic Policy Council (DPC) on Jan. 9, the report on “Advancing Stem Cell Science Without Destroying Human Life?? asserted that the results of the scientists’ research emphasized the possibility of “creating cell lines for the study and treatment of disease without the many ethical dilemmas associated with the creation and destruction of embryos.” In a letter addressed...
...bioscentists to exchange ideas in a central location. After he was named president of HHMI, Cech and two other institute administrators met over a meal at a restaurant in Boulder, where the University of Colorado—the school at which Cech has spent almost all of his professional life??is located. According to a press release from the institute, Cech and the administrators—scribbling on the back of a napkin—sketched a preliminary blueprint for a massive bioscience complex...
...largely secular campus, making it almost impossible for Harvard to converse with a religious world. Furthermore, forgoing the reason and faith requirement will perhaps irretrievably confirm the pragmatic, utilitarian ethos of the task force’s vision for Harvard education, banishing rigorous thought about meaning, purpose, and life??s ultimate questions to an academic never-never land...
...That is why the report’s maligned religion requirement was actually the most important. More than simply helping us understand our persistently religious world, it could have become an urgently needed space for rigorous thought about what the late Harvard philosopher and University Professor Paul Tillich called life??s ultimate questions—in short, about veritas...
...Feathers and beads, “Apocalypto”: A constant reminder that even if you’ve made mistakes in life??drunk-driving arrests, anti-Semitic tirades, “Lethal Weapon 4”—you can still make millions of dollars in Hollywood. 2. Al Gore’s sensibly casual suit, “The Inconvenient Truth”: What environmentally conscious 19-year-old wouldn’t want to be Al Gore for a day? Add a “Give ‘em hell...