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Recent events have overtaken my considerations for Person of the Year. I think stem-cell pioneers James Thomson and Shinya Yamanaka are good nominees. I'm not a molecular biologist, but their discoveries with stem cells will have enormous scientific and political impact--which is very rare. Certainly, this discovery is as big and potentially even bigger than the cloning of Dolly, the sheep...
...relationship. While Jeffrey Kluger may value the choices we make, he did not use the word choices in his story. Our community is a powerful factor in how we choose to behave, of course, and we do place others outside our community. This can help us understand how a person we label a terrorist can be considered a hero within his community. We have much work...
...person seated in front of me: I am neither a barber nor a dental hygienist, so kindly remove your seat from my lap. My preferred countermove--training my air vent to blow directly onto your head, often agitating a brief flurry of dandruff--doesn't always work as a deterrent...
...person seated behind me: When you hoist yourself up by my seat back, that seat back becomes a catapult, and I become its payload...
...person seated next to me: It's called a tray table, not a changing table. Deep down, I think the lady with whom I once shared an armrest--the woman who changed her baby's diaper on the tray table during meal service--already knew that...