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...paranoid just yet. Robert Wood, who is working on the Harvard fly, estimates that these kinds of miniature bug-bots won't be fine-tuned for at least five years...
...fairness. But I do think that liberals could do a better job of articulating their vision of the common good. Since Ronald Reagan, conservatives have been more effective than liberals in voicing moral and spiritual themes. This is a change from the 1960s, when Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy made powerful appeals to the common good.8.FM: What do you think of President Drew G.Faust’s tenure so far?MJS: Terrific. President Faust has already made some excellent appointments and set just the right tone for her presidency. I’m a great fan.9.FM: What...
...grandchildren to getting a building named after oneself. An increasing number of pundits, however, believe that universities are not fully deserving of such donations, especially since these donations are tax deductible. For instance, in an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times, former Secretary of Labor Robert B. Reich argued that such donations are not to “real charities” because they do not directly serve the poor. Consequently, he argued, donors should not get a full tax deduction. This criticism, however, is a red herring for the real problem: that the government unjustly subsidizes charitable contributions...
...more somber voices come on scene. Robert B. Reich, a professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley (and President Clinton’s former Secretary of Labor) recently asserted in his Los Angeles Times op-ed that universities are often “investments in the lifestyle of the rich” and argued that donors should only be able to deduct half of their contributions to not-for-profits like colleges and operas...
...Quebec’s Laval University said they are on the verge of finding a vaccine for the inherited form of Lou Gehrig’s disease, a condition in which a mutated protein destroys a person’s capacity for muscle control. The work conducted by Robert H. Brown Jr., associate professor at HMS, and Jean-Pierre Julien, a research chair at Laval University, is part of a growing trend in the search for vaccines against genetic diseases, including Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Diseases. Instead of inserting an active version of the harmful...