Given its scope and depth, one might expect that St. Ambrose University's Darwin Project started with a big idea. After all, 2009 is the 150th anniversary of the original publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of the Species, as well as the 200th anniversary of its author's birth. (Both he and Abraham Lincoln were born on February 12, 1809.)
"Do
we build attractions to lure tourists or create opportunities for the
community's own enrichment?"

Many
of the lighter moments in Steven Spielberg's Oscar-winning film
Schindler's List
came when the industrialist Oskar Schindler protested to German
officials that children and people with disabilities were essential
to his wartime manufacturing effort.
Jeff
Speck doesn't expect to be a popular person among government
officials.







