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...rules and a family that was making them up as it went along. A month ago, when relatives assumed Castro would never let Juan Miguel out of the country, they said if he just came to the U.S. they would turn Elian over. Last week when he appeared, a thousand conditions had bloomed. In one breath the relatives promise they will obey the law, but they seem to mean only the laws that work to their advantage. Even though the courts ruled last month that this was an issue for the INS and not a custody fight that belonged...
...risk of infection." Their equipment often consists of little more than cloth, an old blade and a string to tie off the umbilical cord. While the Rwandan government hopes eventually to have most women deliver in hospitals, that is wishful thinking in a country with only a few thousand hospital beds. The best chance of lowering maternal and infant mortality is equipping midwives with a few simple tools: razor blades, cloth, swaddling, disinfectant, soap and rubber gloves, plus training in hygienic techniques. The cost...
...wandered into the Carpenter Center during the fall semester student photography show, you have experienced the work of Jeff Sheng '02. Hailing from Thousand Oaks, a suburb of Los Angeles, Sheng's work was the show's centerpiece, consisting of eighteen 16" x 20" color prints spanning the inception and dissolution of a gay relationship in which he was involved. The photographs-ranging from self-portraits, portraits of his former boyfriend and intimate moments between the two-document the vicissitudes of sex and love. Sheng afforded his audience the opportunity to enter a world rarely seen, a sphere of emotional...
...millennium. The mathematician Ronald Graham once said, "Our brains have evolved to get us out of the rain, find where the berries are and keep us from getting killed. Our brains did not evolve to help us grasp really large numbers or to look at things in a hundred thousand dimensions." Sounds reasonable, except when you consider that it could be similarly said that our brains didn't evolve to invent computers, design spaceships, play chess and compose symphonies. John, I think we'll continue to be surprised by what the brains of scientists turn...
...slightly longer answer is definitely not. The Jurassic Park idea--amber, insects and bits of frog DNA--would not work in a million years, and it was by far the most ingenious suggestion yet made for how to find dinosaur genes. Cloning a mammoth--flash-frozen for several thousand years--might just prove feasible one day. But dinosaurs, 65 million years...