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...these two, Harvard wasn’t always on the radar. Coronado says he didn’t expect to get into Harvard. “It was totally a whim,” he says. “I was really hoping that I was qualified enough for Georgetown...
...scientifically inclined son of middle-class parents from Britain's Midlands--his father was a shoe manufacturer--Crick started out studying physics and during World War II worked on radar and magnetic mines. But like Watson, he switched fields after reading Erwin Schrodinger's What Is Life? After their triumph in 1953, Crick went on to study the larger issue of how the millions of base pairs along DNA's twisted strands convey the message of the genes...
...institutions, and this isn’t always a bad thing. I am pretty confident that queer studies will find acceptance here because it is a really vibrant field of intellectual inquiry. The problem for the past ten years or so, though, has been keeping it on the radar screen so that its merits can be recognized...
...problem in the United States is that most of the testing seems to be done under the aegis of huge biotech firms, either in-house or through funding at large universities with flagrant disregard for any conflict-of-interest considerations. This fact seems to have slipped under the radar of most U.S. commentators and watchdog groups...
...farmers of Zambia grew it they would have to pay royalties every year to the companies that engineered the crop. At this point any self-respecting conspiracy theorist would be asking if this was a cynical ploy to get G.M. foods under the E.U.’s radar, and create a cash cow for the biotech business. And this is not an isolated incident either. Just this month, India refused a shipment of 1,000 tons of corn-soya mix when the U.S. again refused to guarantee that no G.M. foods were contained in the shipment...