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Among the stranger pursuits of science these days is the effort to exhume dead celebrities. Meriwether Lewis, of the pair of famous Northwest explorers, is the latest to be marked for elevation. He joins a lengthening list that includes President Zachary Taylor, the parents of Lizzie Borden, John Wilkes Booth, Jesse James, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Marilyn Monroe and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lion...
...simply view the sea as a danger. His sea pieces, even when the weather is bad, are seductive. The paint is of great richness, beautifully manipulated, running the gamut from thin, subtle glazes to expansive slathers of opaque pigment. And there is often a character of apparition: things are stranger than you imagine, though you believe he saw what he saw--witness the heads of the Gloucester fishermen appearing from the wave that hides their dory in Kissing the Moon, 1904, or the breaking wave on the rocks in West Point, Prout's Neck, 1900, that flings...
...Stranger still--and even more disturbing--is the idea that humans might try to produce designer children by sampling the sperm of superstars. What makes using frozen stem cells different from frozen sperm, says Art Caplan, director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, is that it creates the possibility of an unlimited supply. "That," he says, "opens the opportunity for mass...
Todd is a relative stranger to many members of the administration. In fact, Pilbeam and Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 admitted the week of Todd's selection that they did not know him at all; and that condition appears to have been mutual...
...nurses meant by hastening are still being hotly questioned, the story at least brings the focus back where it belongs. Historically, euthanasia talks have always broken down over who gets to pull the trigger. Even the Germans of the 1930s drew the line when Hitler got into euthanasia. Strangers can never decide whose life is worth living, because strangers by definition don't know enough; but neither do friends, because the outside of an illness is so different from the inside. To the eye of Health, any number of conditions may seem quite hopeless: quadriplegia, blindness--how can anyone live...