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...example, pointed out that they could lead to greater mutual understanding among peoples by illuminating how narrow our genetic differences really are. ?We could finally realize our ideal of the family of man,? she said. Similarly, with recent identification of more genes associated with Alzheimer?s, Harvard?s Rudolph Tanzi predicted substantial progress in the search for a treatment for this devastating disease. ?The news is good,? he said. ?We?re well on our way to new leads in the development of drugs for Alzheimer?s.? MIT?s Nancy Hopkins, for her part, saw in recent research on hormonal pathways...
...both Nobel prizewinners for their work on DNA; Pulitzer prizewinning entomologist and sociobiologist E.O. Wilson; genome mappers Francis Collins and J. Craig Venter; John Gearhart, who isolated the fetal embryonic stem cell; Dean Hamer, the leading expert on behavior genes; plant geneticist Ingo Potrykus; neuroscientists Dr. Wise Young and Rudolph Tanzi; inventors Jaron Lanier and Raymond Kurzweil; software gurus Bill Joy and John Gage; environmentalists Thomas Lovejoy and Brian Halweil; ethicists Daniel Callahan of the Hastings Institute and Donald Bruce of the Church of Scotland; legal scholar Bartha Knoppers; brain scientist Baroness Susan Greenfield; Lieut. General Paul Van Riper, U.S.M.C...
...Elvismania transcends the usual devotion to a white-hot celebrity, even one who has died before his time. Rudolph Valentino, Will Rogers, James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison and Bob Marley - these stars may have left indelible niches in the hearts of their fans, but few built shrines to them. Rumors of their survival rarely blossomed into testimony of posthumous visitations. Nor did their homes become cathedral theme parks. Yet each year Graceland, Presley's residence in Memphis, welcomes more than half a million Elvisitors, and many are true believers: call them Presleyterians. Like the Christian liturgical calendar...
...Stewart turned serious when asked to discuss the tenure of former New York City mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani...
...patient. There’s a Christmas story buried in this column, albeit a warped and disturbing and wholly abstract one—a postmodern sketch that differs a fair amount from Frosty, Rudolph and other, more familiar tales. This one involves lawsuits, a beating and Joseph Heller. And Harvard football...