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Getting into Harvard is hard, very hard. Yearly the gatekeepers in Byerly Hall vet thousands of applicants on their merits, rejecting many times the number of students that they accept. But getting a scientific paper published in Science or Nature, today’s pre-eminent scientific journals, is oftentimes harder. Science, like much of academia, has its own admissions committee. Though over a million manuscripts are published in journals yearly, many more are submitted and rejected. The gatekeepers of science—peer reviewers who are reputable scientists and well versed in a particular field—advise journal...
...neighboring Chad. If fighting continues, already malnourished farmers won’t be able to harvest their staple crop of millet and Darfur’s four-month-old peace accord will lie in tatters. At this pivotal moment, the international community must offer Sudan one last chance to accept peacekeepers. If that fails, the UN should invoke Chapter VII of its charter to authorize a peacekeeping mission without Sudan’s consent. Critics of UN intervention argue that it’s unfeasible. In Darfur’s complex civil conflict even militants can be hard to identify?...
...aftermath of our breakup, he admitted that he treated me “horribly” and was a “huge jerk.” Now 3,000 miles apart, we still bicker over politics and feminism on the phone, but we’ve come to accept that we’ll always have our differences...
...result of the toppling of Saddam Hussein - the Arab moderates beseeched the Bush Administration to give urgent attention to resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But their chances of success are no better now than they ever were. The Bush Administration has shown no inclination to press Israel to accept the basic peace terms advocated by all Arab moderates, including Mahmoud Abbas: the 1967 borders as the premise of a peace deal, to which modifications can be negotiated on a quid pro quo basis...
...Even if Abbas and the Arab moderates manage to persuade Hamas to accept those terms, Israel's governments since 2001 have rejected them. Sharon insisted that Israel would keep its key West Bank settlements and the Jordan valley, and would never share Jerusalem; the route of his security wall leaves the Palestinians hemmed in to two parcels of West Bank land, and Olmert has based his unilateral withdrawal plan on the map created by that wall. Last week Olmert even proclaimed that the Golan Heights, Syrian territory captured by Israel in the 1967 war, is "an inseparable part...