Chronicle of Higher Education. Volume 51, Number 39, June 3, 2005

"Chronicle of Higher Education" presents an abundant source of news and information for college and university faculty members and administrators. This June 3, 2005 issue of "Chronicle of Higher Education" includes the following articles: (1) "The Miraculous Sighting of a Vanished Bird" (Furman, Andrew); (2) "In the Beginning Was the Word" (Watzman, Haim); (3) "Next Question?" (Vick, Julie Miller; Furlong, Jennifer S.); (4) "All Humanists Will Be Assimilated: An English Professor Confesses that Some Educational Technologies Actually Make Teaching More Exciting" (Benton, Thomas H.); (5) "The Benefits of Short-Term Study Abroad" (Lewis, Tammy L.; Niesenbaum, Richard A.); (6) "Biomedical Scientists are Engaged in a Pyramid Scheme" (Rajan, T. V.); (7) "Contesting the Poetry Contests" (Casteen, John T., IV; Genoways, Ted); (8) "Brain Chips and Other Dreams of the Cyber-Evangelists" (Horgan, John); (9) "The Great Jewish-American Synthesis" (Wolfe, Alan); (10) "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Mess" (Fendrich, Laurie); (11) "Higher Education Proves No Match for India's Booming Economy: More Young People Pass up University Degrees, Once a Key Credential" (Neelakantan, Shailaja); (12) "Pride or Prejudice? Some Colleges Back Away Using American Indian Names and Mascots for Athletes Teams, While Others Defend Them" (Wills, Eric); (13) "From Guttenberg to Google: Five Views on the Search-Engine Company's Project to Digitize Library Books" (Young, Jeffrey R.); (14) "Bucking the Trend: Transylvania University Is a Small College Making Big Money the Old-Fashioned Way: Buying Stocks" (Strout, Erin); (15) "House Challenges Bush's Limits on Embryonic-Stem-Cell Research" (Brainnard, Jeffrey); (16) "Come Over to the Dark Side" (Monastersky, Richard); (17) "Advancing in Age: As the Number of Old Professors at One University Increases, So Do the Challenges" (Fogg, Piper); and (18) "Refinancing Frenzy Hits Student Loans" (Brush, Silla).