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...codons of the standard genetic code, Leder has also made breakthrough contributions to oncology, including the creation and patenting of OncoMouse, a genetically modified mouse designed for cancer research. “His early work helped him establish himself,” said Nobel Prize-winning geneticist Philip A. Sharp, director of the McGovern Institute at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Leder’s research eventually focused on cloning and efforts to isolate genes and describe their structure and sequence, Sharp says. Leder counts among his researchers current Princeton University President Shirley Tilghman, according to Sharp...
...address the declining enrollment, was held in a roundtable format, meaning that committee members could speak freely but the public could not ask questions. It was the result of a resolution sponsored at the last regular School Committee meeting by member Patricia M. Nolan ’80, a sharp critic of the school district’s leadership.The roundtable began with a presentation by Clifford Cook, a Cambridge city planner, who showed long-term data indicating that the number of children born and living in Cambridge has declined over the past several decades. Superintendent of Schools Thomas Fowler-Finn...
...critical housing market clearly is weakening. With a new, untested team at the Federal Reserve, Paulson's credentials are more important than ever. He's also well-known in China, which holds massive stores of U.S. housing debt and could get spooked if the housing market takes a sharp turn down...
...expedition there was no way that you would have left a man under a rock to die." SIR EDMUND HILLARY, the first man to climb Mount Everest in 1953, on the death of British mountaineer David Sharp, who froze just below Everest's summit last week as several other climbers passed by without trying to save...
...fell just short of winning six years ago but doesn't want to look hungry for it. Democratic insiders weigh Gore's demurrals against his increasingly robust activism, not only on the environment but also in his full-throated criticism of the Iraq war. His opposition stands in sharp contrast to the support Clinton and many other leading Democratic contenders gave to the invasion of Iraq. And it is far more in tune with the sentiments of the party--and, more and more, the country at large...