Word: maynards
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Mayr will share the prize with John Maynard Smith of the University of Sussex, England and George C. Williams of the State University of New York. The three will split the $500,000 prize and will receive gold medals at a ceremony in Stockholm this September...
...that reason, it's probably just as well that both efforts, public and private, are proceeding in parallel. "The public sector is learning how to produce very high-quality data," says Maynard Olson, director of the University of Washington Genome Center, which is part of the federal project. "You'll never see private companies doing that." If private companies focus first on the most intriguing genes, while government-sponsored scientists sequence the rest, everybody will profit...
...businessmen and political leaders who gave eugenics their blessing or fervid support. The list begins with Darwin, who in The Descent of Man praised his cousin Galton and decreed that genius "tends to be inherited." Other champions included the young Winston Churchill, George Bernard Shaw, Alexander Graham Bell, John Maynard Keynes, Theodore Roosevelt and the usually taciturn Calvin Coolidge, who declared during his vice presidency that "Nordics deteriorate when mixed with other races...
...referred to the example of the Amigosprogram at Cambridge's Maynard School, whereEnglish and Spanish-speaking elementary schoolstudents take part in a bilingual program in whichclasses are conducted in English one week andSpanish the next...
...preferring to include them in a subsequent issue devoted to scientists and thinkers. But surely our nation and the world would be less strong today, and many of our most famous business leaders would seem less prescient, absent the guidance of the Federal Reserve Board's Alan Greenspan. John Maynard Keynes, who convinced us of the value of fixed exchange rates and the need to use deficit financing to spend our way out of recessions, had tremendous influence over economic policy through the Depression and in the years after World War II. Although his name is back in vogue...