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...scientists, academics, artists and business innovators gathered here Wednesday for the start of a three-day summit, hosted by TIME, to sip chardonnay and mull over the future of life. As one might expect from such a powerhouse crowd pondering so cosmic a theme, there were fireworks from the outset as participants debated stem cell research, discussed the upswing in anti-evolutionary fervor, examined the promise of nanotechnology in medicine and considered whether anyone would ever really make a big payday from the genomics revolution. Still, the academic spats did nothing to dampen the general optimism that science would improve...
...Crimson (5-1, 3-0 Ivy) dominated the Lord Jeffs (6-5) from the outset, refusing to concede even a single game and using the match as little more than a tuneup for its contest against No. 2 Princeton on Sunday. Against Trinity, Harvard had to fight for every point and ultimately dropped several close matches...
HUDS managers said they expected disappointment even at the outset of the renovations in 1997, as the last Houses to be renovated would inevitably have inferior facilities toward the end of the process...
Indeed, Broadbent came out “flat and rusty.” Perhaps feeling he had nothing to lose, Montgelas attacked Broadbent from the outset...
Harvard’s offense performed admirably, generating plenty of shots from the outset, although never quite matching Maine’s first-period offensive explosion...