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...popular culture, in movies from the 1964’s classic “Dr. Strangelove” to 2003’s “Hulk.” But science isn’t performed by crusty, withdrawn septuagenarians wearing pocket protectors. Nor is it done by mad scientist types muttering arcane formulae under their breath. But why does much of society have that impression? Perhaps because buried deep in the collective Western psyche, there is an ingrained nervousness, an anxiety toward science. We stand in awe of science, its discoveries, its modern-day miracles that...
Drinking a diet coke, Andrea told homicide sergeant Eric Mehl what she had done and why. She did not hate the children. Nor was she mad at them. "They weren't developing correctly," she said. The soft-spoken sergeant asked how long she had considered murder. Two years, she said. "Since I realized I have not been a good mother to them." Mehl watched her movements. She looked him in the eye. She nodded. Sometimes she answered, "Yes, sir." But she would sit in 15 seconds of stone-cold silence if he asked too much. She could give only short...
...Anglo-Franco rivalry at a 2005 summit in Russia. Unaware that a French journalist still had a microphone switched on, Chirac joked with German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and Russian President Vladimir Putin that "the only thing [Britain has] ever done for European agriculture is mad cow disease ... you can't trust people who cook as badly as that. After Finland [Britain is] the country with the worst food...
...overall biomedical muscle, nor is it trying to. But it's impossible to witness the buzz at Biopolis or meet scientists who have chosen Southeast Asia over Stanford and not wonder how much the U.S. could achieve in stem-cell research if it were as science mad as this city-state of 4.4 million. For all the hundreds of millions of dollars Singapore has devoted to high-tech lab equipment and recruiting top scientists from around the world, it is spending just as much to educate a homegrown core of young Singaporean scientists to continue the work. Until they come...
...have always been affected by my relationship with them. We grew up close, and now we are in touch each week. In times of discord, I don't like to go away angry at either of them. As my brothers and I have always said, "We can't stay mad at one another for more than an hour. We're family...