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Arthur Galston Biography

Agent Orange researcherDied: June 15, 2008Best Known as: plant biologist whose research led to the creation of Agent Orange Deathplace: Hamden,…

Hwang Woo-suk, 2006 News

South Korean scientist, suffered a stunning blow when former colleagues and a group of young scientists made a series of disclosures that undermined the advances Hwang had claimed to have…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Fragment: To Italy

by Percy Bysshe Shelley Fragment: A Tale UntoldFragment: Wine of the FairiesFragment: To Italy Published by Dr. Garnett, "Relics of Shelley", 1862. As the sunrise to the night, As the…

The Devil's Dictionary: Leviathan

by Ambrose Bierce LETTUCELEXICOGRAPHERLEVIATHAN -n. An enormous aquatic animal mentioned by Job. Some suppose it to have been the whale, but that distinguished ichthyologer, Dr. Jordan, of…

Should We Play God?

Because the same procedure used to make a carbon copy of the sheep is also theoretically applicable to cloning human beings, many ethical and philosophical questions have been raised. The…

Converting Units

Homework Center – Frequently Asked Questions Converting Units How do I convert metric to U.S units and vise versa (kilograms to pounds, meters to feet, centimeters to inches, liters to…

Brewer's: Doctor Syntax

A simple-minded, pious henpecked clergyman, very simpleminded, but of excellent taste and scholarship, who left home in search of the picturesque. His adventures are told in eight-syllable…

Brewer's: Jekyll

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The two phases of one man, “the law of his members warring against the law of his mind.” Jekyll is the “would do good,” Hyde is “the evil that is present.” (…

Jonathan Harris 2002 Deaths

Jonathan HarrisAge: 87 character actor best known for playing the villainous Dr. Smith on television's Lost in Space. Died: Los Angeles, Nov. 3, 2002John HarperG - LRichard Harris