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Unlike last year's commencement speaker, Director of the National Institutes of Health Harold Varmus, who did not inspire students' interest, Albright's experiences with foreign policy and her ability to break through the glass ceiling of national government are ingredients for an engaging and important speech...
...last, however. As NIH director Dr. Harold Varmus told a congressional subcommittee last week, it could take just one infertile couple, arguing that cloning provides their only chance to bear a child, to turn public opinion around...
...legal and ethical implications of the new technology and reporting back to him with their findings within 90 days. Later this week the House subcommittee on basic research will hold a hearing to address the same issues. The probable tone of those sessions was established last week when Harold Varmus, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), told another subcommittee that cloning a person is "repugnant to the American public...
...speech to the annual meeting of the Alumni Association on the afternoon of Commencement Day, Varmus addressed the discontent on campus surrounding his selection as Commencement speaker. He discussed the widespread sentiment within the senior class that his Nobel-winning discovery of cancer-causing oncogenes did not make him "exciting" enough to speak at a Harvard graduation...
...speak for an element of our culture at least as important as politics or war," Varmus said...