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...university has nothing to offer the world, such calls to refocus its curriculum to society’s benefit are hard to resist. French literature and chiaroscuro have never kept the rain out, and you can’t eat the imaginary numbers. Although some developments in math and science may have occasionally brought material benefits, they are few among the fields where even remarkable progress would not bring technological advance—set theory, for example, or the study of dead languages. At best, such fields are a harmless pleasure for those engaged in them; at worst, a perverse...
...contrast to Collier’s work, which may have applications for vaccines, Dietrich’s work on anthrax focused on genes that cause cells to resist the toxin. In a paper published in this week’s Current Biology, Dietrich describes two alleles, or versions of a gene, that help mice fight off anthrax infections...
...don’t know how to resist challenges. I remember the stories about your gambling woes in the early ‘90s that support this theory. If the odds are long, you want in. It’s your nature...
Dershowitz also doesn’t resist the opportunity to jab back at those who attack him for his TV appearances...
...will obviously be very difficult to assure the safety and security of any American or Western personnel deployed in Pakistan, a fact highlighted by a Sept. 25 statement attributed to Osama bin Laden: “We tell our Muslim brothers in Pakistan to use all their means to resist the invasion of the American crusader forces in Pakistan and Afghanistan...