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...University’s future campus in Allston will still feature a contemporary art museum and stem cell research facilities, University officials told a group of Allston residents last night. The presentation to the Harvard-Allston Task Force suggests that momentum is building for the University’s development of its land holdings across the Charles River, though planners expressed some frustration with the slow pace of Harvard’s decision-making process, mentioning several times their attempts to pressure the University to come to a decision about the ideas it has been batting around since last spring...
...University President Lawrence H. Summers had visited his alma mater Friday, he might have picked up some pointers from the annual Charm School at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The institution may be famous for multiplying stem cells and refining fish censors, but when it comes to charm, MIT has some answers too: bowties are a “simple topology problem” and networking is really “social calculus...
Some critics have tried to put the blame for the U.S.'s scientific decline on President George W. Bush, citing his hostility to stem-cell research, his downplaying of global warming, his statements in support of "intelligent design" as an alternative to evolution, and his Administration's appointment of nonscientists to scientific panels as well as its alleged quashing of dissenting scientists (see story on page 37). Although that record has certainly roiled the scientific community at home, experts in business and academia have been warning for decades that U.S. science was heading for trouble for three simple reasons...
...tech industries, and now has the most research scientists per capita in the world. South Korea decided to concentrate on reproductive technology, and although the research of superstar Hwang Woo Suk has been exposed as mostly fraudulent, the country has plenty of other world-class experts in cloning and stem-cell research...
...China only to visit family and friends. But in 2000 he returned as director of one of Peking University's newest research centers. Deng was promised his own team of students and faculty members and whatever state-of-the-art facilities he needed to pursue his research on stem cells. It clearly wasn't the same country he had left 11 years earlier. "It was more exciting, more dynamic," he says. "Before I never [thought] about doing research there because I needed resources, but it looked to me that resources were available. The whole environment was changing...