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...both sides, there was an undercurrent of terror beneath the indignation. Repenting and accepting Jesus as my lord and savior is on my To-Do list somewhere between “Pick up your dry cleaning” and “Win a Nobel Peace Prize.” But when I run into groups like Repent America, I start rethinking my life. “Things do not exist simply because you do or do not believe in them,” Nathan said. “If you don’t believe in trucks, that won?...
...He’s included in Time Magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the World” under scientists and thinkers. By all accounts he’s single-handedly credited with teaching an entire nation about global warming—and the Nobel committee agrees...
...plaque lists his achievements while at Harvard, where he won the Nobel Prize and “planned the rejuvenation of the Cold Spring Harbor Lab under which he subsequently became director...
...that women should be allowed to abort fetuses if genetic testing reveals they have a predisposition for homosexuality. But while Watson would be a poor choice to lead a conference on political correctness and sensitivity, he remains one of the great biologists of the 20th century. He won his Nobel Prize for playing an integral role in the discovery of DNA, not for his views on race relations; we find the suggestion advanced by some that his scientific successes should somehow be invalidated as a result—by renaming Watson-Crick nucleotide base pairing or otherwise—absurd...
...want to detract from the science,” said Lue, who co-teaches the introductory life science course. Those who know Watson more intimately have taken a more direct approach. Cabot Professor of Biology Richard M. Losick, a onetime colleague of Watson and co-author with the Nobel Laureate of the textbook “Molecular Biology of the Gene,” said in his molecular and cellular biology lecture course on Friday morning that he was personally outraged by Watson’s comments and did not believe them to be accurate. —Staff writer...