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...from the Harvard laboratory of George M. Whitesides—the Flowers University Professor—to Nano-Terra, Inc., a privately held company co-founded and chaired by Whitesides. This practice of licensing technology to companies who develop them into products is known as technology transfer. The licensing agreement holds throughout the life of the patents and gives Nano-Terra the exclusive right to develop the technologies for use in military products, environmental testing products, and industrial products, among others. “I think that’s one of the points of research?...
...negotiations with the Charlesview Apartments. The low-income housing complex is currently located at Barry’s Corner, a key intersection at the heart of the proposed campus that Harvard hopes will become the Harvard Square of Allston. In November, the Charlesview board of directors signed an agreement to swap land with Harvard. In exchange for Charlesview’s current five-acre property, Harvard agreed to build new replacement apartments for Charlesview on 6.5 acres several blocks away.A handful of Charlesview tenants, however, protested the board’s decision. The residents have legitimate concerns, particularly about access...
...Washington has certainly done more than any other country to bring peace to Darfur, urging the U.N. to define the conflict as a genocide and brokering a peace agreement between the government and some rebel factions in 2006 (that was, however, never implemented), before Tuesday's sanctions announcement. Europe has yet to find clear voice on the conflict. (Tuesday also saw France unveil a plan for an international force to open a humanitarian corridor from eastern Chad into Darfur, but when questioned, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner admitted: "It is only an idea so far ... but it might work.") Meanwhile...
After months of negotiation, India and the U.S. may finally be close to a deal on nuclear technology. Close, but not quite there, yet. The purpose of the agreement is to legitimize India's status as a nuclear power, enabling it to buy nuclear fuel and technology from abroad despite having refused to sign the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and having twice tested nuclear weapons. Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns told a gathering in Washington on Wednesday, "We have made enormous progress... We are 90% there...
...Iran next week in Baghdad? "There are powerful forces pushing the two parties into these talks," says Dr. William Samii, a longtime Iran specialist currently with the Center for Naval Analyses, a federally funded non-profit. "But there may be even stronger pressures that will make agreement difficult to reach...