June 22, 2004
Doping for Seconds
With the return of the Summer Olympics, the world of athletics is once again focusing its attention on allegations,...
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June 22, 2004
‘Higher Standards’
On July 12, 2004, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer spoke about business ethics at the Chautauqua Institution....
March 22, 2004
Notes & Briefs
The problem of spam has grown much worse in recent months. In mid-2003, about half of all e-mail was estimated to be...
March 22, 2004
Dot-Com Terrorism
Al Qaeda has been dealt heavy blows in Afghanistan and elsewhere, but the war against radical Islamic terrorism...
March 22, 2004
Campaigning for Stem Cells
Ever since the Bush administration announced its policy on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research —...
March 22, 2004
Daniel J. Boorstin, RIP
The nation’s collective IQ took a nosedive on February 28, 2004, when Daniel Joseph Boorstin — historian,...
March 22, 2004
Gaga Over Google
The tremendous success of Google is due largely to one brilliant realization: that the actual information on the...
March 22, 2004
Life from Scratch
In November 2003, J. Craig Venter, the famed trailblazer of the genomics frontier, and Spencer Abraham, the Secretary...
March 22, 2004
Science Goes Hollywood
This spring, Hollywood has ventured into two major public controversies over science with all-star films on human...
March 22, 2004
Red Planet, Wet Planet
Recent discoveries increase the likelihood that Mars might once have had life — or might still hold life today....