[Mitworld] New: David Page and Kanan Makiya

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The Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research presents

Dr. David Page

"The Evolution of Sex: Rethinking the Rotting Y Chromosome"

David Page's research provides new insights into the future of the Y 
Chromosome, and gives new hope that the Y Chromosome is not a 
"genetic wasteland" but is really quite resilient. Page's delivery on 
this topic is simultaneously serious and humorous, educational and 
entertaining, in short, a must-see lecture on a very compelling 
topic.  Page, a former MacArthur Foundation Prize Fellow, is 
Associate Director of Science at the Whitehead Institute and 
Professor of Biology at MIT.

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The Center for International Studies
CIS Starr Forum presents

Kanan Makiya

"The End of Saddam and the Future of Iraq"

Kanan Makiya is the author of Republic of Fear and The Monument both of which
were written under the pseudonym, Samir al-Khalil. 
Now an adviser to Iraq's Interim Governing Council and a member of 
the panel working on the drafting of a new Iraqi constitution, Makiya 
reflects on the end of the Saddam regime and the documents it left 
behind.

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