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...Britain, activist patients have joined together to create the Insulin Dependent Diabetes Trust (IDDT), a charity that maintains an informative website, iddtinternational.org IDDT contends that as many as 10% of insulin-dependent diabetics cannot tolerate synthetic insulin. The group offers lots of anecdotal evidence that animal insulin may be a better therapeutic option for some patients and argues that genetically engineered insulin was allowed on the market on the assumption--not evidence--of its superiority. IDDT says no long-term studies have been carried out to compare synthetic and animal insulins and cites a 2002 review by the prestigious Cochrane...
Galbraith launched Harvard’s first course in developmental economics in the early 1950s, according to Parker. And even as he gained prominence as an academic and Democratic Party activist, he continued to engage undergrads at his lunchtime "Economics Table" each Thursday in Winthrop Dining Hall...
This year could be the year of the horse. Activists in Great Falls, Mont., are lobbying their state legislature to pass the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act, which would ban the export of horses to countries that slaughter them for meat. Their reason? Apparently slaughter “really disrespects an animal that we consider to be a friend,” says activist Melissa Carlson. “Disrespect,” it seems, is a loose term in Montana...
Environmental lawyer and activist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. ’76 railed against a celebrity-centered culture and an inept media in a speech last Friday regarding conservation efforts...
...separate Tamil state in the north and east of Sri Lanka for 23 years. In February 2002 the Tigers signed a ceasefire with the Sinhalese-dominated government in the south. But sporadic attacks and killings have persisted since. The April 7 assassination of a pro-L.T.T.E. Tamil activist marked the beginning of a fresh escalation of tit-for-tat violence. Kugenthirasah's suicide attack sent that into overdrive. The Sri Lankan navy and air force responded with artillery strikes and bombing runs on Tiger-held territory near the northeastern town of Trincomalee; at least 10 people died. On April...