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Classrooms "shouldn't be used for swapping Lewinsky stories," cautions Professor Kevin Ryan, director of the BU Center for the Advancement of Ethics and Character, in an interview with the Boston Herald on the Clinton scandal (September 16). "If there is going to be a discussion, it should be a serious academic discussion of what impeachment means, of what the Founding Fathers had in mind when they developed the concept of the presidency and what did the Federalist Papers have to say about the quality of a president."
Professor Temple Smith, director of the Biomolecular Engineering Research Center, speaks out on the promise of the human genome project in the August 31 issue of The Scientist. "We'll have the whole human genome by 2005," he says. "That information is already being correlated with known mutations for various kinds of cancer, and when the human genome is completely sequenced, chip technology will allow researchers to rapidly identify complex genetic relationships and novel mutations that may be leading to disease."
In a September 20 New York Times review of a stage adaptation of Dante's Inferno, scripted by CAS professor Robert Pinsky, the poet laureate explains why poetry should be able to transcend the printed page. "Poetry by its nature is vocal," he says. "Poets, in my opinion, don't write for the page; they don't even write on the page. Even if you're writing the words down, you're writing with your voice."
While there is agreement among the majority of the medical community that physical activity is critical for children of all ages, doctors caution against too much pressure. "Parents can be their kids' worst enemies when pushing them towards sports," warns Dr. Robert Vinci, vice chairman of pediatrics at Boston Medical Center, in a September 13 article in the Boston Herald. "It's the very rare child who is going to make it through the maze and become an elite athlete."
Boston Medical Center is one of the first institutions in the nation to test a new medical "super glue" that makes it possible to heal lacerations without the use of stitches. "This is really revolutionary," Dr. Sigmund Karasch, director of the pediatric emergency department at BMC, says in the Boston Herald September 8. "The kids don't cry and they don't scream. And they won't have a negative experience with their doctors."
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