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Battered husbands, indeed! Of course it happens, but it is a little like a case of man bites dog and occurs with the same degree of frequency. It's like asking for pity for the millionaire's ulcers or having a symposium on the plantation owner's hangnail...
Davis actually said at a 1970 symposium of scientists, theologians and philosophers, that if human cloning becomes possible, "it will be tempting to clone" talented individuals...
...Symposium on Ancient Medicine--Therapeia: Doctor and Patient in Ancient Medicine. Sponsored by Greek and Latin. Lecture by Ruth Padel, Lecturer in classics, Oxford and Cambridge Universities on "A Doctor in the Nous: Greek Perceptions of Human Beings which create the Doctor's Way," 10:15-12 a.m., Room 264, Science Center...
...familiar figures like Bach, Mozart and Beethoven did indeed write music unrivaled for all time. But occasionally one yearns for compositions which not only appeal to our own era, in any number of vague ways, but which have also been conceived in our own era. I remember a symposium on modern music I attended a couple of years ago in which the composers--among them Pierre Boulez and Peter Maxwell-Davies--said that the age of technology, futuristic abstraction and novel problems in thought and culture demands music suited to and born of this very modernism...
Recently, the activities committee has focused on events within the University, such as a weekend trip to Yale and a career symposium...