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...Roselli acknowledges in his papers, sexuality in humans is far more complex than in sheep. The whole notion that researchers studying farm animals could develop a "cure" for human homosexuality is a fantasy of the far left and the far right, which both value a gay-sheep "scandal" more than the messy reality that is Roselli's work...
Insha's story illustrates the notion of the Power of One, the name of our new section about people and organizations that are making a difference in others' lives. Joining the ranks of our regular writers for the Power of One is Caroline Kennedy. She writes this week about a struggling student who grew into a model principal--and about her own commitment to community service. She comes by that commitment naturally. She begins her column by citing her father's inspiring call more than 40 years ago for all Americans to embrace public service. That clarion call motivated...
...turn out to be, few scientists doubt that they will locate consciousness in the activity of the brain. For many nonscientists, this is a terrifying prospect. Not only does it strangle the hope that we might survive the death of our bodies, but it also seems to undermine the notion that we are free agents responsible for our choices--not just in this lifetime but also in a life to come. In his millennial essay "Sorry, but Your Soul Just Died," Tom Wolfe worried that when science has killed the soul, "the lurid carnival that will ensue may make...
...provide exposure to a different set of educational goals in his lectures, as opposed to what he called “proselytizing.” “I think my audiences were more interested in the big picture, what a liberal arts education can accomplish and the notion that education should have larger and more ambitious goals than professional training,” Lewis said. Lewis penned the 2006 book “Excellence Without a Soul: How a Great University Forgot Education,” a reflection on the purpose of college education and Harvard?...
...vanished civilization made even stranger by the fact that an intact, modern city was churning away all around it. But in the '90s, as real estate values on the streets below started rising, developers began to clamor for the tracks to be demolished to make way for their perennial notion of utopia, which consists almost entirely of luxury apartments...