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...exciting discussion centered on using the new findings from the elucidation of the human genome to lengthen our productive lives. Susan Greenfield, director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, thought that ?quite soon? women would be able to have their eggs fertilized while they were still in their normal child-bearing years, store them and then bear the child whenever they choose. "People of all ages will be having children," she said. Polymath inventor Raymond Kurzweil made a prediction that left even his fellow futurists gasping. Asked how long he expected to live in light of all these advances...
...current full-board plan is predicated on the assumption that all the food desired by a normal undergraduate can be provided by House dining halls. Of course, on a strictly literal basis, it can. But eating should be enjoyable as well as nutritional, should tickle the tastebuds as well as fill the stomach. This is where HUDS’s paternalistic philosophy fails in practicality. For there is no escaping that, however well-executed the particular dishes, institutional food remains just that. And there exists in all students, regardless of their economic circumstances, a desire to escape occasionally?...
...Some guys came in totally normal clothes,” she says. “We said that if they want to take of their pants, and go just in their boxers, then they could come...
Harvard allowed the soft-drink maker to stay on the site after their normal lease had expired, she says...
...clash of civilizations, yet the terrorists struck at progressive society with products of its own technological sophistication. The deaths of thousands of innocent citizens going about their workday routines helped to elevate this disaster to mythic stature. Who could have conceived of being attacked while making photocopies in a normal office environment? This tragedy stripped away the fragile veneer of security and stability from our daily lives...