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Most cell biology is currently dominated by Lamarckian evolutionary theory--which suggests that cells respond to changes in their environments--and the belief that cell death takes place according to a "blueprint...
Sharks are unusually vulnerable to the fishermen's assault. "Top predators are not used to mortality threats and do not respond rapidly," says Gregor Cailliet of California's Moss Landing Marine Laboratories. Sharks generally take 10 to 15 years to reach sexual maturity. Most species reproduce only once every two years, and pregnancy typically lasts a year. With infant-mortality rates exceeding 50%, it is difficult for sharks to maintain their numbers...
Because professors are held in higher esteem than graduate students, students would respond more favorably to attention from a professor. Danforth Center studies have concluded that the quality of learning is proportionate to the amount of attention students receive...
Although the U.S. has reserved the right to respond to chemical strikes in kind, it is unlikely to do so in the gulf war. Chemicals would achieve no military advantage that cannot be attained through conventional means, and their use by the allies would compromise long-term U.S. efforts to eliminate them from the planet. The U.S. has no chemical arms in its gulf arsenal, nor does it possess any biological weapons, having unilaterally forsworn them in 1969. Should Saddam Hussein fight dirty, however, the U.S. and its allies can retaliate by using other potent weapons against Iraqi troops. Among...
...Dunster House resident, I feel compelled to respond to the misleading comments (February 2) by the Harvard Foundation on the dinner held in honor of Secretary of Health and Human Services Louis Sullivan last fall...