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...cleaning test tubes to get your name listed eighth on some biology paper. You’re also the rising class of grad students and the rising generation of professors, lawyers, authors and doctors. So the key is to take an interest in the important issues of ownership that surround the variety of materials you are (or will soon be) responsible...
...photographs now on display communicate a clear political message at once deeply rooted in Colombia and applicable worldwide. A series of prints entitled “Recyclers, Cartucho St.” captures individuals rising like pillars from the poverty and violence that surround them. In the text alongside these pictures, Munera explains that just months after he produced the prints, his subjects—victims of an armed conflict in the country—were expelled from their street. The event coincided with the ascension to power of Alvaro Uribe Velez, the current president of Colombia...
...Saddam’s water palaces (they had been living there since February 2002, a month before combat had officially begun). We ate Whoppers and hot apple pies around a U-shaped marble table in lavish, high-backed upholstered chairs. Saddam’s flat-screen surround-sound theater system echoed satellite television off the cavernous walls of the ballroom...
...scientists' basic strategy was the same as in most post-Dolly cloning experiments: remove the nucleus of the egg, with its single set of chromosomes, and replace it with the nucleus of a mature cell, containing two sets (in this case, the mature nuclei came from cumulus cells, which surround eggs during development). With a quantity of eggs that a commentary in Science calls "whopping," the scientists were able to experiment with different techniques to find which worked best--varying the time between inserting the new nucleus and zapping it with electricity to trigger cell division, for example, or testing...
...Howard Dean is hard to pigeonhole because he is not an ideologue and doesn't surround himself with ideologues." LAURENCE E. THOMSON Richmond...