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...Krtolica maintains that the frozen embryos StemLifeLine starts out with are only slightly less viable than fresh ones in generating stem cells lines, and that freezing cells is a routine and well understood process. So far, she says, there is no evidence that frozen stem cell lines are any less active or viable when thawed - but scientists don't yet have a lot of experience in manipulating and storing human stem cells. The most harmful part of the process, says Krtolica, is the freezing itself; "the freezing process has the biggest harm in killing cells," she says. "The number...
...says people have a tendency to place the idea of God into gaps in scientific knowledge—proclaiming that phenomena that cannot be understood for the time being are the work of God. However, he says, this is not a feasible place for religious influence to stand...
...read Shakespeare and Plato. Hyper-competitive students moderated themselves through a custom that shunned egoistic ambition. Grade inflation hardly existed, for earning a “Gentleman’s ‘C’” was no mark of shame—indeed, everyone already understood that a Harvard degree meant something...
...political innovation. Instead of enlisting just fundamentalists and other conservative Protestants, Falwell opened the Moral Majority up to everyone: Jews, Catholics and Mormons - in short, the very people (and faiths) that fundamentalists had been separating themselves from for generations. That was Falwell's greatest political discovery: he understood that fundamentalists, orthodox Jews, conservative Catholics and Mormons had so much in common politically that they could overlook their theological differences...
While fellow students understood his decision, Zuckerman says, his parents and some teachers had to be actively convinced that the year off would be advantageous to his academic career...