Word: missions
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PRESIDENT Derek C. Bok deserves praise for his decision last week to appoint Professor of Government Robert D. Putnam as new Dean of the Kennedy School of Government. The decision shows the president's commitment to redefine the mission of the school...
Meet Take 6, the hot new gospel group whose performers, all devout Seventh- day Adventists, are as much in the business of preaching as entertaining. The six men, who perform with no instruments except their heaven-sent voices, count themselves among the world's more unusual evangelists. "Our mission," says bass Alvin Chea, "is to take the word of Christ into places it doesn't ordinarily go." Founder Claude McKnight III says of the group's Christian message, "It's not a gimmick for us. It is our lives...
...pestilence. Once it becomes possible to eradicate a gene that causes a fatal disorder, and thus keep it from passing to future generations, it will be criminal not to do so. As director of the Human Genome Project, James Watson contends that the research has a crucial humanitarian mission. Says he: "The object should not be to get genetic information per se, but to improve life through genetic information...
...good sense of his limitations as an outsider, but he shares our view of the school's mission and is ready and willing to learn," said Carrie B. Chimerine, KSSG communications officer...
...Monday, several hours after Discovery's liftoff, the crew completed its primary task--deployment of a $100 million Tracking Data and Relay Satellite to complete a communications network that will allow shuttle astronauts to have nearly constant contact with Mission Control...