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...creation of a new professorship dedicated to this very subject is in the works. The Watson Chair in Science and Religion “could make Harvard the world??s center in the academic discussion of science and religion,” says Clayton, who says he is vying for the post. According to Edwards, the position will not be filled until the fall...
...shove the science and religion debate under the carpet...[you] deny the partnership between the religious and scientific dimensions that we absolutely need: to make progress on the environmental crisis, religiously motivated warfare, America’s slipping place in the world??s scientific community, and so forth,” he says...
...would say the relationship of Islam to the world??s religions and to the West is inextricably bound with the relationship of Islam and science,” he says. “An Islam that can embrace science is not a fanatical Islam, but is the great Islamic tradition of the high middle ages—Islam, traditionally, was the religion of unification...
...Class is still our dirty, little secret. We, like many Americans, prefer to pretend that class is something that exists out there. We can bemoan widening inequality America—even trumpet our own socioeconomic diversity (thanks to the Harvard Financial Aid initiative) to the outside world??without ever turning the gaze inward. Harvard students, many insist, occupy the same social playing field. Financial aid is generous; everyone eats the same dining hall food and lives in the same dorms. Due to public transportation and the paucity of parking in Cambridge, few students drive around flashy cars...
...will be reserved for public institutions. The proposed multi-million dollar Massachusetts Stem Cell Bank and a separate center for RNA research will both be located at the University of Massachusetts, according to plans released by the Governor’s office. The stem cell bank will be the world??s largest repository for stem cell lines, the plans said. “That’s what you would expect,” said Casey of the funding set aside for public institutions. “That is the state’s traditional responsibility...