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...heady feeling when a galaxy of scientists, academics, artists and business innovators gathered here Wednesday for the start of a three-day summit, hosted by TIME, to sip chardonnay and mull over the future of life. As one might expect from such a powerhouse crowd pondering so cosmic a theme, there were fireworks from the outset as participants debated stem cell research, discussed the upswing in anti-evolutionary fervor, examined the promise of nanotechnology in medicine and considered whether anyone would ever really make a big payday from the genomics revolution. Still, the academic spats did nothing to dampen...
University President Lawrence H. Summers spoke at yesterday’s Faculty meeting about the brief which Harvard will file by the Feb. 18 deadline, citing “the important and compelling interest in diversity” as the brief’s prevailing theme...
...shares bought at too high a price. And it is hard to find any big mergers that have worked out. So you come back to what management can control: the dividend. Dividends are back, and don't underestimate the ability of Wall Street to make a theme...
Indeed, Dragnet could use even less Dragnet. It was a mistake to keep the "dum-da-DUM-dum" theme, now irrevocably ironized, and the voice-over, while not so intrusive as Webb's, moralizes too much. There's no need to persuade us that a cop finds serial killers repellent. But as you settle into the show's rhythms and well-crafted plots, you forget these glitches. You could almost be watching Law & Order...
...sure whether she wants to be a pediatrician or a pilot? Take her out to play--role-play, that is. Laresgoiti, a former toy distributor, is partnering with Mexico City--based Grupo Magico Internacional, an amusement-park operator, to build Wannado, a $50 million children's career theme center set to open in Sunrise, Fla., in the spring of 2004. For $15 to $20, kids can play doctor--and cruise-ship captain, archaeologist and dozens of other roles--in lifelike surroundings with adult actors. Wannado will be modeled after a hit Mexico City operation that Laresgoiti, 38, built...