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Bioengineer J. Craig Venter is expected to announce within the next few months, perhaps weeks, that he and his company, Synthetic Genomics of Rockvile, Md. and La Jolla, Calif., have created Earth’s first artificial life form. The feat will be an important milestone in the growing scientific...
A core along these lines neither adopts the great books approach that Mahtani derides nor the general distribution approach that he embraces but rather provides a common-sense synthesis of the two. It presupposes only that knowledge is cumulative and that progress in education depends on mastering the basics.
Now that Westerners are buying more African music, Kane hopes to weave a new synthesis between East and West. "My aim is to create a new sound," he says. "People have woken up to us, now I want them to open their ears."
A professor at MIT since 1975, Schrock, who earned his Ph.D from Harvard in 1972, received the 2005 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work on “the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis,” according to the Nobel Prize website.
In choosing Neusner as his muse, Benedict selected a man as formidable and controversial in the field of Jewish studies as the Pope is in Catholicism. An expert on the sprawling literature of the 1st through 6th century rabbis who shaped modern Judaism, Neusner is an empire builder, a central...