Word: organism
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Self-proclaimed "smut writers" Ford and Cecelia Tan read graphic excerpts from their gay erotic works to a crowd of three dozen undergraduates at Harvard Hall last night. The reading and subsequent discussion was part of Queer Month at Harvard, funded by Open-Gate, an alumni organ that actively subsidizes campus events for gay students...
...Vaeth said he was also concerned the task force's mandate was so narrow as to make it simply a data-collecting and -processing organ...
Dolly shakes our ethical foundations, our social norms, even our religious beliefs. What is the role of clones in society? Are they an asexual variant on incest? Can they become human slaves or organ donors? Who are their parents? Who is their family? Are they made in God's image...
...started, of all places, in the Swiss Alps. The year was 1980. Berners-Lee, doing a six-month stint as a software engineer at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, in Geneva, was noodling around with a way to organize his far-flung notes. He had always been interested in programs that dealt with information in a "brain-like way" but that could improve upon that occasionally memory-constrained organ. So he devised a piece of software that could, as he put it, keep "track of all the random associations one comes across in real life and brains...
...Miller says he hopes to make the class available to more seniors in coming years. Finally, the class furthered my belief that Dining Services is the by far most innovative organ in the University, and is certainly the most attentive to student needs. Dining Services has added student-friendly programs like Crimson Cash, visiting chef dinners, "fly-by" lunches and continual changes to the menu (thank goodness the occurrence of "Asian food" has now dropped to once every 10 or so dinners...