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Sure, my parents will attend the scheduled, stiff events, but they didn't leave the smoggy comforts of Southern California to learn about the allure of health care at Harvard--or even to discover the ancient perspectives on our future climate. (Amazing, I know.) Professor Michael J. Sandel may have success rekindling a few parents' flirtations with philosophy, but most folks are undoubtedly more interested in the intimate aspects of our Harvard lives. They'll want to meet that boy. They'll want to meet your nemesis (in my case, that's Stephen E. Sachs '02--damn him!). They...
...British futurist Patrick Dixon. "The law of genetics is that the work is always significantly further ahead than the news. In the digital world, everything is hyped because there are no moral issues?there is just media excitement. Gene technology creates so many ethical issues that scientists are scared stiff of a public reaction if the end results of their research are known...
...silver-spoon patrol is getting a lot of attention. After all, if those with the most to lose are willing to suck it up and live with a stiff tax on their money at death--for the good of our economy and out of basic fairness, they say--shouldn't we all? Well, no. Trouble is, the superrich don't represent the wealthy--and there's a meaningful difference. What does Soros, with a net worth of $5 billion, care if the estate tax claims half his wealth? He's still got billions to spread around. This...
...British futurist Patrick Dixon. "The law of genetics is that the work is always significantly further ahead than the news. In the digital world, everything is hyped because there are no moral issues--there is just media excitement. Gene technology creates so many ethical issues that scientists are scared stiff of a public reaction if the end results of their research are known...
...hope Ernest Hemingway, wherever he is, has a nice stiff drink - he's going to need one when he hears this news: The celebrated snows that drape the heights of Mount Kilimanjaro are melting at an alarming pace. According to researcher Lonnie Thompson, global warming is gradually erasing the blinding white cover, leaving instead a dull patina of rock. "The ice will be gone by 2015 or so," Thompson told the Associated Press...