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...University will adopt a policy of "incremental hiring"--hiring and tenuring women scholars when they are available, rather than when there are particular departmental vacancies...
...addition, the plan acknowledges the potentially high cost of incremental hiring but urges Harvard to adopt the practice...
Ever since the warehousing of 140,000 unwanted or sick children in squalid state orphanages was uncovered after the downfall of the Ceausescu regime in late 1989, Westerners have flocked to Romania to adopt thousands of abandoned babies. A growing number of unscrupulous prospective parents have reached beyond the orphanages, however, and scoured rural villages with the help of local "fixers," searching for children to buy from easily tempted poor farmers...
SAUDI ARABIA Grateful to the U.S. and the other allies for saving them from Saddam, the Saudis suggested in the midst of the crisis that they would adopt a new openness toward Israel. But now that the kingdom is safe again, the old hostility is back. It took a diplomatic bludgeoning by the U.S. to get the Saudis and the other gulf states to agree earlier this month to serve collectively as an observer to a Middle East conference and to participate in talks with Israel on regional issues like water distribution, economic development and arms control. Worried about...
Cambridge became the first city to adopt as law the Animal Welfare Act as well as guidelines for recombinant DNA research set by the National Institutes of Health...