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Despite his intelligence??and biotechnological success, J. Craig Venter might just be venturing into something beyond his control [Feb. 4]. His creation of a genome might not result simply in whimsical and interesting "zoos of man-made creatures" or "custom-designed pets." His grand biology experiment might alter the biosphere. It is extreme hubris to think that we can invent a new life-form and unleash it into the environment. Perhaps the question for scientists is not simply can we, but should...
Another benefit for employers: meditation seems to help regulate emotions, which in turn helps people get along. "One of the most important domains meditation acts upon is emotional intelligence???a set of skills far more consequential for life success than cognitive intelligence," says Davidson. So, for a New Year's resolution that can pay big dividends at home and at the office, try this: just breathe...
...Soviet ends. The following year he fought a war not to acquire a specific sliver of territory but to restore Egypt's self-respect and thereby increase its diplomatic flexibility. Clearly, there had been an intelligence failure. What no one believed?the consumers no more than the producers of intelligence???was the notion of starting an unwinnable war to restore self-respect...
...pure chance?or, some say, typically astute Ludwig intelligence???the Jari property also turned out to contain a rich deposit of kaolin, a clay used in making coatings for high-gloss paper. Huge earth-moving machines are now gouging the white stuff out of an enormous open pit mine and feeding it into a $23 million processing plant that started up two months...
...aged 30, he founded a New Morning Journal of Politics, Literature and General Intelligence???the New York Tribune (now the New York Herald Tribune). "The immoral and degrading Police Reports, Advertisements and other matter which have been allowed to disgrace the columns of our leading Penny Papers, will be carefully excluded from this, and no exertion spared to render it worthy of the virtuous and refined, and a welcome visitant at the family fireside." Horace was editor; one Thomas McElrath, his partner, was business manager. Among those who worked on Greeley's Tribune at one time or another: Charles...