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...frosty Queen has grudgingly given her approval for PRINCE CHARLES to marry his longtime mistress, CAMILLA PARKER BOWLES. If the rumors are true, it would mean the Queen has abandoned years of scrupulously pretending Camilla doesn't exist--which in Britain is referred to as proper. The marriage could occur as soon as 2003, according to the story. Finally, and most bizarrely, one of the few humans connected to Diana who did not cash in on her death, the man she called "my rock," was charged on Thursday with pilfering 342 pieces of clothing, kitchen tools and other trinkets from...
...understand why, you need to know about a curious feature of some genes. Except for the genes that occur on the sex-determining X and Y chromosomes, it generally doesn't matter whether you inherit a particular stretch of DNA from your mother or your father. In the past 15 years, though, researchers have learned that at least 50 pairs of these so-called autosomal genes act a little differently. In a process called imprinting, one of each pair is permanently turned on or off, depending on whether it derives from the sperm...
...They assumed a lawful, perfectible material world in which knowledge is unified across the sciences and the humanities." Consilience received its customary share of praise and criticism, especially from detractors who found Wilson's conclusions naively optimistic. But he makes a persuasive argument that stranger convergences have already occurred and will occur again...
According to Gregory E. Atkinson, the department administrator of the FAS registrar’s office, the change to the start of the academic year was made so that Rosh Hashanah would not occur during the first several days of the term. This year the holiday starts at sundown on Sept. 17 and ends at sundown on Sept...
...fertility treatments in clinics around the country. National Institutes of Health guidelines say it is O.K. to do research on cells from such embryos, most of which would be destroyed anyway; but it is wrong to create an embryo solely for the purpose of harvesting its cells, which can occur in some types of therapeutic cloning. That is the guideline stem-cell proponents are urging Bush to embrace and the one that made it impossible for many moderates, as well as conservatives, to accept the Greenwood proposal, which would violate...