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...spent a huge amount of money on this trip, a large part of your personal fortune. So far at least, is it worth it? Absolutely. Even kids ask me, Wow, how could you possibly consider spending that much of your personal wealth on this particular event? And what people have to know is, it wasn't that I was looking for a place to go spend some money. It was that I was looking for a way to reach space.. And I've built businesses, and invested, and grown my assets to pull it off. And I've made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space Tourist Richard Garriott | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

...Bacon none of this was a statement about his particular life and times, though his life played a part in it, and so did his times. What Bacon was after was something deeper. He wanted to make the body the visible sign of the eternal devils of human nature, the dog beneath the skin that bares its fangs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Francis Bacon: Tragic Genius | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

...University, he said that it would be more appropriate for the actual faculty, rather than an “awkward venue” of administrators, to award the necessary PI rights. The second part of the proposed change automatically extends approval for professors with PI rights at a particular division within Harvard to the entire University—for example, a faculty member with PI rights at Harvard Medical School would be able to submit a research proposal to the Harvard School of Public Health. Under previous rules, the individual would have had to request permission for submission...

Author: By Benjamin M. Jaffe and Esther I. Yi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Fac Council Changes PI Rules | 9/24/2008 | See Source »

...Each cell has a particular tuning, which means that it will respond to some odors and not others,” Wilson said. “We compare the way that neurons are tuned to odors in different parts of the olfactory system and try to figure out how that tuning arises...

Author: By Alissa M D'gama, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Neurobiology Professor Receives 2008 MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’ | 9/24/2008 | See Source »

...useful to have Senators John McCain and Barack Obama in Washington this weekend to wrangle over the specifics of the proposed $700 billion federal bailout of Wall Street. But, truth be told, their return is not essential. Neither McCain nor Obama claims to be an economic expert. McCain, in particular, has openly confessed that “economics is not something I’ve understood as well as I should,” and any contributions the two might add to the debate can surely be made by other politicians. In fact, the candidates’ presence in Washington...

Author: By Daniel E. Herz-roiphe | Title: The Show Must Go On | 9/24/2008 | See Source »

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