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...normal weight. You could almost hear the national sigh of relief in the newspaper articles, radio talk shows and monologues of late-night comedians that followed. "I can't tell you how happy this makes me," David Brooks wrote in the New York Times, which devoted a front-page story, an editorial and two Op-Ed pieces to the findings. "A lifetime of irresponsible behavior has been unjustly rewarded...
...lines already in existence--not exactly cutting-edge science. Relegated to a minor role in the field, the NIH thus has not done its usual job of defining the field's perimeters. To the relief of researchers, the National Academy of Sciences stepped in last week with a 131-page set of recommendations. They arrived just in time to be put to use by the new California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, which plans to fund $200 million in human ESC research beginning this summer. Some of the guidelines...
...oscillating arms dispensing a Cascade® of 250,000 cubic feet of foam. By the next day, the entire apparatus was gone thanks to a tear-down crew that didn’t sleep. And yet, in exchange for these efforts, The Crimson responded with an inflammatory front page article focusing exclusively on a minute portion of partygoers who reacted to the foam (“Lather Suds Rub Partiers Wrong Way,” News, Apr. 19), a malicious (albeit facetious) editorial and an unduly harsh April 21 Fifteen Minutes party report card (apparently also meant in jest). These...
...Just ask Citigroup. In 2000, U.S. environmental activists from ran began campaigning against the bank's funding of old-growth logging projects and a controversial new oil pipeline through an Ecuadorian ecological preserve. ran placed a full-page advertisement in the International Herald Tribune labeling ceo Sandy Weill an environmental villain. Citigroup started meeting with ran, and last year it announced it would apply the Equator Principles to its business. The bank committed to banning investment in firms logging primary tropical forests and pledged to invest in renewable energy projects...
...some point during high school, I found my mantra: organized religion was an oxymoron. How could a hierarchical institution be a vehicle for transcendence? I shocked my AP English class when I wrote a biting two-page satire in rhymed iambic pentameter about how hypocritical the high holidays were. Nonetheless, I chose to fast and attend services on Yom Kippur. The ritual made me think about the world’s hunger. It cleared my head. I was touched by the communal confession of sin (I couldn’t help comparisons to that other religion’s mode...