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...wind up. Predictions from the Future of Life conference for the year 2010: By then we?ll have sequenced the complete tree of life, possibly even breeds long extinct, including the common ancestor of humans and chimps. My ambition would be to shake hands with Lucy. ?Author Richard Dawkins, Oxford University Medicine will become thoroughly personalized. For under $1,000 we will be able to get our entire genome sequenced in only half an hour. Doctors will be able to tell almost instantly whether our genome is normal or carries the blueprint for disease. - Leroy Hood, president and director, Institute...
...Having come from a tradition where the choral groups of Oxford and Cambridge are regarded as being professional, that always seemed a do-able thing at Harvard,” said Somerville...
DIED. HUGH TREVOR-ROPER, 89, brilliant, cranky British historian; of cancer; in Oxford, England. The Last Days of Hitler, his 1947 best seller, which described a confused, deluded hitler, was based on Trevor-Roper's investigation as a wartime member of the BRITISH Secret Intelligence Service. In 1983 his reputation was tarnished after he authenticated 60 volumes of what turned out to be forged Hitler "diaries...
...recent appointment of Professor Gilbert Murray of Oxford University to fill the Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry next year at Harvard has called forth considerable editorial comment in a wide variety of publications. Practically all of the opinions expressed look upon Professor Murray's coming here as a definite step in intellectual progress. Unanimous comment has also been made on the fact that the word poetry in connection with this professorship is to be taken in its broadest sense and is to include poetic expression, not only in language, but in music and the fine arts...
...evidence of the fact, that despite the glorifications of athletics, there is still much cultural opportunity offered on this side of the Atlantic, is found in the establishment of the Charles Eilot Norton Chair of Poetry at Harvard, and the recently announced appointment to that chair of the distinguished Oxford Professor, Gilbert Murray...