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...marked deterioration of an important communication skill." But that assessment would be meaningless without factoring in all the benefits I've enjoyed from switching to the keyboard. Not only can I put words together at 10 times the speed of using pen and paper, but I can also transfer those words to the digital realm, where they can be edited, spell-checked, e-mailed, quoted, blogged and Googled...
...program. Established this spring, the program was designed to “replace and augment” the 20-year-old Prefect Program as a part of the College’s comprehensive curricular review. Mancall’s advising role will also extend to advanced standing, visiting, and transfer students, Gross said. “The new position will allow me to consider first-year advising issues more globally,” Mancall wrote in an e-mail, adding that there will be some overlap in his new post in that he will continue to collaborate with his colleagues...
...process by which that is achieved is called nuclear transfer. The first step is to remove the nucleus from an egg and replace it with the nucleus of an adult cell (in Dolly's case, a cell from a ewe's udder). The two components are electrically fused and chemically activated to trick the hybrid cell into dividing like an embryo. Not surprisingly, the process doesn't always go right. "I call it a lottery," says Wilmut. "Even if you use the same method as consistently as you can, you may get some clones with severe abnormalities and some that...
...acquire Russia's stake in the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC), a company partly owned by the governments of Kazakhstan and Oman, which operates a 1,500-km oil pipeline from western Kazakhstan to a marine terminal in the Russian Black Sea port of Novorossiysk. Putin endorsed the idea. The transfer of ownership is likely to enrage the CPC's other owners, who view Transneft as a competitor. People familiar with the consortium's internal discussions say that the Russians have not yet officially proposed an ownership transfer. CPC executives couldn't be reached for comment. A spokesman for Chevron, which...
Investing guru Warren Buffett -- above right, with Bill and Melinda Gates -- announced last week that he will gradually transfer more than $30 billion of stock in his Berkshire Hathaway firm to the Gates Foundation, which works to improve global health and U.S. education. Each installment must be spent in the year it's given; the $1.5 billion pledge for 2006 will double the foundation's current spending--and boost its already powerful impact...