Word: missioneering
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...preferred course not just of the Commander in Chief but also of many of the top generals who report to him. To them, Iraq remains a fight that can be won--as long as political support for the enterprise doesn't bottom out completely. "I believe in the mission," says Lieut. General Peter Chiarelli, commander of the coalition forces, who ends his second tour of duty in Iraq this month. "It is what it is, and it's not going to lend itself to a timetable...
...finally, the uniformed brass seem poised to speak more candidly. But that doesn't make a military solution to this disaster any more plausible. "You know, we're trained to complete the mission," a senior military officer told me. "And that's our reflex reaction, to come up with a can-do plan-'Here's how you fix it, sir!' But we may lack perspective now. The situation may be reaching the point of no return." Indeed, the best advice for the military to give the President at this point may not be how to "win" in Iraq...
...Broad Institute, a Harvard-MIT collaboration whose mission is to apply emerging genomics research and technology towards medical application, was awarded a grant yesterday from the National Institute of Health’s National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) to pursue initiatives involving whole genome DNA sequencing over the next four years...
...leading player in the international effort to sequence the entire human genome, which was completed in 2003—has now shifted its focus towards “understanding the structure and function of the human genome and its role in human disease,” according to its mission statement...
...exploring democratic theory. Founded in 1986, the program—formerly the Center for Ethics and the Professions—was renamed in 2004 the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics, in recognition of a “significant gift,” according to Thompson. The primary mission of the Center is to “help increase the expertise of faculty who are teaching ethics courses at professional school level, and to encourage younger scholars to make ethics teaching their career objective,” according to the Center’s Web site. Every year...