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...Treatment of Animals (PETA) announced a $1 million prize for the commercial development of in vitro meat—meat that is grown from stem cells in a laboratory. Of course, offering prize money to entice entrepreneurs is not a novel idea. The Ansari X prize, eventually awarded to Space Ship One, provided $10 million to develop private space flight. The Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded prizes to develop autonomous ground vehicles. Even Google has offered a $30 million Lunar X prize for the first privately funded group to send a robot...
...Advisor Luis E. Cárcamo-Huechante, an assistant professor of Romance Languages and Literatures who will be presenting the Latino/a of the Year awards, also commented on the show’s ability to act as a bridge between two cultures. “[Presencia Latina] provides a space, and a ‘stage,’ to bring U.S. Latino students and students from Latin America together, which is very important in terms of a more transnational Latino cultural vision,” he says. Performances in this year’s show range from traditional folkloric...
...improvise? Do we lower our voices, dress in black, save a lock of hair as the Victorians did and wove into jewelry? Do you let young children see a corpse--the very word suddenly cold and empty because his flesh and blood no longer matter, his meaning filling the space once his presence is gone? "Is that Grandpa?" our 4-year-old wondered. "No, honey," my husband told her. "He's not here anymore. That's just his body." She worked at this, how the arms that held her and the lap she sat in were no longer...
...only send beer [overseas] to remind them who makes it best,” he added. Despite the informal atmosphere of the tasting, during which Koch partook in the tasting of all five beers offered, he praised the pub for providing educational events and a safe space for students. “This place was a crappy basement when I was here,” Koch joked. “It’s really ballsy of Harvard to do this, to put a pub on campus and give their students an opportunity to drink in the right setting...
...Just as high prices may lead a backpacker to choose to venture elsewhere this summer, airlines considering Airbus planes and bankers wondering about BMW coupes and Château Lafite Rothschild wines may think twice before purchasing. In fact, Airbus’s parent company European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company announced this week its flagship plane, the A380, will cost five million dollars more starting next month, for it has always been quoted in American currency. In short, a strong euro reduces European exports, which are at the core of many continental economies like France?...