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...Faithful Young I appreciated your article about the Roman Catholic Church's efforts to connect with young Europeans [Aug. 15]. In referring to Pope John Paul II's popularity with young people, you quoted a German Cardinal: "The girls in St. Peter's Square who cheer the Pope have the Pill in their pockets." I don't think the Cardinal was referring simply to contraceptives. He was making a general statement about many aspects of contemporary sexuality and behavior proscribed by the Catholic Church. Some Cardinals are concerned that we young people are given too much freedom. In fact there...
There are doubtless many Oreophiles who would call a project to improve America's favorite cookie a form of heresy. None of them work for Peter Wilson, senior director of technology at Kraft Foods. Wilson and his team of food scientists and engineers have invested 30,000 hours in trying to convert the Oreo we know and love into one that tastes just like the original but is considerably less likely to clog snackers' arteries. The challenge: rid the recipe of its trans-fatty acids, a component of the fats as essential to the cookie's cream-infused crunch...
...including researching isotopes and teeth, making old Latin texts accessible, and starting a summer internship program—which he will begin to execute this year. Wednesday’s lecture—led by Thomas Calligaro, the head physicist of the world-renowned Louvre Museum, and Peter Perin, the director of the French Musee d’Archeologie Nationale—focused on the duo’s discoveries of a link between India and France in the 6th century. Calligaro and Perin said that by using a fusion of physics and history, they were able to determine that...
...fossils was uncovered in October 2004. More recently, an anthropology professor at the University of New England in Australia, Mike Morwood, discovered a fossilized jawbone that has spurred the latest investigation into the new species’ existence. Morwood collaborated with another professor at the University of New England, Peter Brown, to analyze the fossil findings, a process which they just finished. Lieberman wrote about the discovery and its latest developments in yesterday’s edition of the journal Nature. Further testing will be done to prove that the collection of bones is from a distinct human species, according...
...will take the helm of the Harvard Management Company (HMC) early next year while HMC board member Peter A. Nadosy ’68 manages the endowment in the interim...