Topic: University of Washington

The Monitor's View A big step toward 'designer babies' – and big questions

Researchers have achieved the first mapping of a fetus's DNA. The breakthrough opens the potential to choose a child's characteristics. Such power, however, should also force questions about 'playing God.'

Student debt: What's been driving college costs so high, anyway?

Did a copying mistake give rise to human intelligence?

Will Saturday's 'supermoon' destroy the Earth?

Greenland's glaciers melting faster, say scientists

Plastic pollution underestimated, say scientists

Chapter & Verse Festival of Faith and Writing: the conference that brought John Updike, Salman Rushdie to western Michigan

Chapter & Verse Amazon hears from hometown critics

Robert Reich How to stop starving public colleges and shrinking the middle class

Amanda Knox family not worried about Italian acquittal appeal

Washington State headed toward gay marriage: a sign of shifting attitudes

College savings plans: Is prepaid tuition still a good idea?

Thirty ideas from people under 30: The Environmentalists

Stratfor cyberattack adds an exclamation point to ‘Year of the Hack’

Paul Allen plans to replace space shuttle program

Will airborne launch pads replace the Space Shuttle program?

An appreciation: longtime Monitor journalist Guy Halverson

Amanda Knox hires attorney in search of book deal

Tea party fuels rise of Herman Cain. So how can it be racist?

Amanda Knox dealing with emotions and new-found freedom, dad says (video)

Crowdsourcing science: how gamers are changing scientific discovery

Opinion Hope for Afghanistan – with its new generation of law students

Will Yemen's fierce fighting push protesters to take up arms?

Will striking Tacoma teachers be ordered back to work?

SpongeBob study: Do fast-paced cartoons impair kids' thinking?