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Peace Dividend Slimy Characters Split Personality Move Over, Mickey Hair-Raising Possibilities Hormonal Edge Science, politics, and law intersected in a speech by Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz at a recent Philadelphia fund-raiser for Israel's Weizmann Institute of Science. Dershowitz, whose keynote address followed a talk by Hadassa Degani, head of Weizmann's nuclear magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy unit, said Israel's scientific prestige could exceed its curr

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Peace Dividend

Slimy Characters

Split Personality

Move Over, Mickey

Hair-Raising Possibilities

Hormonal Edge

Science, politics, and law intersected in a speech by Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz at a recent Philadelphia fund-raiser for Israel's Weizmann Institute of Science. Dershowitz, whose keynote address followed a talk by Hadassa Degani, head of Weizmann's nuclear magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy unit, said Israel's scientific prestige could exceed its current level if the country "didn't have to allocate so many of its resources to war and to peace." Dershowitz asked his audience to imagine the biomedical advances that would result if Israel were able to "beat those swords not into plowshares, but into test tubes and nuclear magnetic resonance imaging machines."

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