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...short-term cures, such as xenotransplantation, or should we fund research for preventive measures and long-term cures, such as stem cell technology? This question is at the center of today’s debate on biomedical budgeting, and Miller gives it short thrift. Still, Miller makes us ponder several sticky questions that face all of medical research, and learning them through xenotransplantation is at least an interesting path...
...Civilization”-style teaching, which makes studying the ancient past unnecessarily boring, will improve that situation. It might also halt the flow of students moving from History to other concentrations. Incidentally, a distributional requirement would automatically increase the attendance of pre-modern courses. Freshmen shopping History 10a today, ponder your choice carefully. You can surely pick a more valuable experience for your precious first semester at Harvard. Meanwhile, join your peers in the hope that History 10a will not be with us much longer—with luck, it will be gone before your senior year...
...much as six months to clean it, most residents had no choice but to leave and take jobs elsewhere. But across the condemned city last week, there were moments of fleeting defiance, staged by those unable to imagine life outside the Big Easy--or perhaps unwilling to ponder the possibility that it might not come back. On Bourbon Street in the French Quarter last week, slightly sauced survivors sat on the bar stools of Johnny White's, a tavern they say has never closed in its 14-year history. "Why are they making us leave? Did they evacuate Iraq?" asks...
...given evening, he might sketch changes he wants to make the next day on his Civil War mural or work on his book or review Spanish grammar so he'll be ready for South America or ponder how he is going to compose a concert scene for a recently commissioned mural. "While working on one mural, I make sketches for the next and think about the third," he says. "I'm like a theater stock company that does one play a week, rehearsing next week's play and reading the play for the week after!" For performing his repertory...
...filled with beauty tips to marry early and avoid being a poor, single woman. Newsmagazines list the names of middle schools that readers' kids should attend to assure they grow up to be winners. Weeklies show what the winners are wearing and where they are eating, while literary essays ponder the meaning of winning and losing in life...