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...relied instead on trial and error, testing hundreds of potential drugs in animals to find a few that actually cure without killing. But these molecular crapshoots are terribly wasteful, which is why drug designers are today turning to a computer science known as bioinformatics to fuel their endless quest for newer drugs and better targets...
This is the sad state of affairs of the Class of 2001's quest for the U.S. Rhodes Scholarship. Although Harvard students often represent at least four of the 32 scholars who go on to study at Oxford University, this year they are entirely absent from the group. And having duly congratulated Canadian Rhodes scholarship winner Tegan S. Shohet '01, we are puzzled why Harvard students were unable to garner any of the American Rhodes scholarships. Statistical fluke? So says Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis...
...family advocated against the move, and his efforts seemed like a quixotic quest because of Richards's popularity. But Bush successfully ran as the underdog. On election night, his margin of victory totaled over 350,000 votes...
Dick Cheney's first target in a second Bush administration may well be to finish a job he never completed as defense secretary in the first Bush administration: Kill the Marines' controversial MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft program. He got a tragic boost in that quest last night when one of the hybrid planes crashed in the North Carolina woods, killing all four Marines on board. The Pentagon is still trying to perfect - and buy - the Osprey a decade after Cheney vainly tried to scrap it during his tenure as defense secretary. The corps, backed by powerful allies...
Elizondo's mestizaje theology has found resonance beyond the Mexican-American community. "Every generation tends to build an image of Jesus in response to its deepest quest," he says. "When they are writing about Jesus, they are really writing about themselves...