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Formed in 1982 to resist Israel's occupation of Lebanon, Hizballah established its terrorist bona fides in the 1980s by kidnapping some 50 foreigners in Lebanon, including 18 U.S. citizens, and killing two of them, notably CIA station chief William Buckley. The group's global reach was achieved perhaps in 1985 with a suspected connection to the saga of TWA Flight 847, in which hijackers shot dead a U.S. Navy diver and dumped him onto a Beirut tarmac. In 1992 Hizballah bombed the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, killing 29, and, in 1994, a Jewish cultural center there, killing...
...destruction at all. One approach is "altered nuclear transfer," in which a gene, known as CDX2, would be removed before the cell is fused with the egg. That would ensure that the embryo lives only long enough to produce stem cells and then dies. That strategy, promoted by Dr. William Hurlbut, a member of the President's Council on Bioethics, has its critics. Dr. Robert Lanza of biotech firm Advanced Cell Technology considers it unethical to deliberately create a crippled human embryo "not for a scientific or medical reason, but purely to address a religious issue." The most exciting...
...Most of the early Mann films, though, show how dependent he was on Hollywood clich?s. In the 1946 Strange Impersonation, scientists Brenda Marshall and William Gargan (we know they're intellectuals because they both wear nerdy spectacles and have bad posture) are engaged to be married, much to the vexation of lab assistant Hillary Brooke. Through some strenuous plot exertions, Marshall has a fight on her penthouse terrace with another scheming scheming woman, who plunges to her death on the sidewalk below. "Fell right on her face," a bystander observes. "They wouldn't be able to tell...
Since former Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby consolidated the previously existing Office of the Dean for Undergraduate Education and the Office of the Dean of the College and tapped Gross as the College’s new chief in 2003, the administration has undergone notable restructuring...
Former Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby and the deans of the School of Public Health and the Medical School appointed the 24 members of UPCSE, which was co-chaired by Stubbs, Smith Professor of Molecular Genetics Andrew Murray, and Kuhn Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology Christopher Walsh. The three professors are a physicist, biologist, and biochemist, respectively...