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...idea that a cure for cancer might be just around the corner got a lot of attention a few years ago after James Watson, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, was quoted on the front page of the New York Times saying that it was going to happen within two years. Watson later claimed he had been misquoted; he had meant to predict only that certain compounds designed to starve cancerous tumors would be proved effective in two years...
Putnam, the president-elect of the American Political Science Foundation for 2001-2002, will join the NAS' ranks of a number of Nobel Prize winners, including Albert Einstein and James Watson...
...those who do have the material and confidence to apply, the odds of selection to the program are in fact not as tough as one might think. “We actually took more than half of the applicants this year,” Watson said. He also said the program could potentially help students develop contacts in the literary world. “The instructor is going to have some contacts and try to get [the thesis] out there,” he said, but “not all students are ready...
...order to apply for a creative thesis, interested juniors must submit a sizable writing sample as well as a prospectus of the project they wish to undertake. Brad Watson, director of the creative writing program and advisor to several fiction theses, said if there was one piece of advice he could offer to those aspiring to write creative theses, it would be to take some of the fiction workshops offered by the department...
Taught primarily by visiting Briggs-Copeland lecturers, the workshops are open to all Harvard graduates and undergraduates. And while application is competitive, Watson stressed that they give students a critical opportunity to develop a portfolio of writing samples and to work closely with potential thesis advisors...