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Conservatives on campus have long lamented their minority status at liberal Harvard. And, some have often gone so far as to claim that they have been marginalized due to their right-leaning beliefs. While it is admittedly possible that some conservatives have sometimes been mistreated at the hands of over-zealous lefties, there has hardly been an outbreak of violence against Republicans, nor has anyone sabotaged the presses of the Salient. The Faculty may be predominantly liberal, but Edmund Burke remains on the curriculum nonetheless. In short, aside from some light-hearted whining, conservatives can't really complain...
...first hurdle, the remaining 22 chromosomes should be mapped by the projected 2005 completion date--the debate around the nature of the work is reaching a fevered pitch. If millennium doomsdayers seem frightening with their predictions of global demise, they don't hold a candle to the groups that claim that the Human Genome Project is the first step towards an existence straight out of Huxley's Brave New World...
...network cites its own research to claim that the time for TV-online convergence has come for its audience: 56% of 12-to-24-year-olds with computers have a TV in the same room. But the knock against "interactive TV" has been that it's an oxymoron; no one's agitating for a choose-your-own-adventure version of Martial Law. webRIOT hopes to score with a sort of cheap-'n'-dirty, Scud-missile interactivity. The game (accessible at www.mtv.com requires no special hardware or complicated interface; players simply use the keyboard as a buzzer. And, notes MTV programming...
While Moscow insists that no more than 1,000 civilians remain with the estimated 5,000 Chechen fighters in Grozny, Chechen officials claim the number of civilians is closer to 50,000. Western human rights monitors in the region warned over the weekend that civilians in Grozny face starvation, and were unable to flee because of the constant bombardment. Whether or not a humanitarian catastrophe unfolds in Grozny, the siege of the city may be a sign of a new type of warfare. "This isn't really country against country," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "It's Russia fighting...
...schooling, mayors across the country are concluding that you can't learn much or graduate if you don't show up. Thus, more and more cities are taking a get-tough approach to battling poor performance - and arresting kids who play hooky. While the approach is too new to claim major academic victories, it is paying some early dividends. In L.A., for example, an ambitious two-year-old program to arrest truants has produced a 20 percent drop-off in daytime crime committed by high school-age kids...