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...From this subterranean realm, Felix, 5, Stefan, 18, and Kerstin, 19, have now come blinking into the world. While Austria recoils in horror at the crime that produced the children, and grapples with how it remained undiscovered for so long, the Fritzls have a more basic challenge ahead of them: survival. Can children constrained to such a stunted sphere adjust to the world's cacophony? And what can modern science and medicine do to help...
...stronger connection to the core strength of Harvard’s research and teaching by creating the new education portal as a first step in a much longer-term education-based partnership. We will work closely with the community to develop exciting new open spaces and introduce public realm improvements, just as we have provided significant support over the years for the improvement of various public parks, playgrounds, and the Honan Public Library. It is always our intention to be active listeners and to fully communicate...
...have political sides,” said McCarthy, one of the three American scientists on the scientific panel that was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize along with Al Gore ’69 last year. “By working with two very disparate communities, people in the political realm will see that unless we work together, we can’t solve this problem...
...York City’s 1868 election is absurd. The only specific evidence of in-person voter fraud that the majority opinion cites is an incident in 2004 in Washington involving a single person. Although states should obviously be concerned about voter fraud, especially in the much less reliable realm of absentee ballots, the Court gives states too much leeway in this instance. The risk of in-person voter fraud is too small to place such a burden as government-issued ID onto citizens. The most disheartening aspect of this decision is that the Indiana law is just one part...
...course, the notion of discourse inspired by art isn’t, in itself, shallow or boring. There is a long and venerable tradition of using shock to stir the art-appreciator’s conscience. Surrealist shock-art sought to tear open the subconscious, politicizing the personal realm of Oedipal complexes and bourgeois sexuality. And not all controversial modern ideas are petty and narcissistic. German artist Gregor Schnedier was recently pilloried for trying to bring real death into an art gallery; he has constructed a room for dying and has offered it to anyone who wants...