Scientists say fetal tissue remains essential for vaccines and developing treatments
BOSTON — The furor on Capitol Hill over Planned Parenthood has stoked a debate about the use of tissue from aborted fetuses in medical research, but U.S. scientists have been using such cells for decades to develop vaccines and seek…
Finally, random admissions: How one Yale class chooses its students
Vikram Mansharamani's business ethics class at Yale was so oversubscribed, he let the students decide who'd gain entry to the course. What followed was a true lesson in business ethics, where random selection was the final arbiter, and transparency was…
This South Bronx kid would have failed the marshmallow test. So how did he get into Yale?
The marshmallow test is famous: Give a kid a marshmallow and see if he or she can show enough self-control to hold off eating it and, as a reward, enjoy a second. Its results have often be viewed as fatalistic…
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Poet Katherine Larson Reads Her Work
Poet Katherine Larson reads from her book, "Radial Symmetry."…
After many months of heated debate, Washington was finally able to compromise on a debt deal to avert a government default this week. Judy Woodruff discusses how the battle over the debt ceiling compares to other politically polarized times with…
Stephen Roach, of Morgan Stanley and now Yale and author of the book "The Next Asia," has long been among the most astute and independent of economic forecasters. He has also spent much of the past decade in the…
Recently, we caught up with economist Robert Shiller outside the admissions office at Yale University, where he's taught economics since 1982. He suggested we waylay a Yale campus tour -- guide and group -- to get their take on inflation.
Paul Solman talks to tour guides and economist Robert Shiller about the cost of tuition.
Does the mounting cost of college mean students are getting a better education? Ray Suarez moderates a debate sponsored by the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs about whether the costly higher education system is broken.
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