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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...
Harvard is a university particularly enamored by statistics: a nine percent acceptance rate, a $35 billion endowment, and 15 million holdings in the library system. These are numbers that define and meter out the quantity of Harvard’s prestige. We are superior to our peer institutions, it seems...
“I’ve been making a lot of duct tape wallets,” David Rakoff says of his most recent pursuits. “For friends and family—it’s a hobby of mine, they don’t pay me...
Nada Surf was once as “Popular” as their aptly titled angsty nineties hit, but they’ll need to be more than “Lucky,” their hopefully-titled fifth studio album, to shoot back to the top of the charts...
Journalistic freedom and onslaught of student start-ups aside, the media campaign for Diamond’s models leaves much to be desired. The mass e-mail calling for nude photos from “hot” undergraduate women seemed offensive to many. Residential houses should not be places...