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...kinds of hopes: hope for a way to relieve the heartbreaking shortage of organs for transplant, for example, or for testing new drugs and treatments on a more nearly human animal to better judge what works. Other researchers are introducing animal DNA into human embryos as a kind of marker, to help them understand how disease develops. Some research involves the intentional creation and destruction of human embryos, however, which is controversial. ?I?m afraid that wasn?t the most precise moment of the speech,? argues University of Pennsylvania bioethicist Arthur Caplan. ?The image he used was something like...
...grader. The true master of a generality is the man who can write a 10-page essay, which means nothing at all to him, and have it mean a great deal to anyone who reads it. The generality writer banks on the knowledge possessed by the grader, hoping the marker will read things into his essay.Every non-mathematical field in the University has its own set of vague generalities. For instance:“Hume brought empiricism to its logical extreme.” (Philosophy)“The whole thing boils down to government rights vs. property rights...
...University President A. Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, in the 1930s, in memory of students who died in World War I. Its inscription reads: “In memory of voices that are hushed.” The church’s bell became Harvard’s official marker of time...
...always as kind as one would like.” The Crimson Network was a radio station affiliated with this newspaper during Simon’s college career, but the network and The Crimson severed ties in 1947.He even tried his hand at playwriting; however, thanks to a permanent marker and some mischievous chums, his play, “Death, There Is None,” became derisively known on campus as “Death, here is one.”Simon also took a stab at criticism, reviewing theater for the Harvard Advocate—back...
...college degree and a couple of hundred dollars. Designing jewelry quickly became a way to stave off the inevitable return home to Ottawa and a job at his father's general store. Every bracelet sold was another few days in paradise. Soon Hardy's unique silver designs became a marker for kindred souls traveling through Asia. ?People saw others wearing my jewelry in the airport, and it was like a secret code,? he says. ?Without speaking, they knew where the other had been.? The code became a cult following and then, in 1989, became an order...