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...Still, those exiles will clamor for some sort of compensation from a democratic transition government -payments the U.S., ironically, could end up bankrolling as a major aid donor. They could be similar, say U.S. officials, to reparations made in post-communist Eastern Europe, which in some cases let original home or building owners regain title to their property as long as they agreed to let the current occupants stay under a rent control agreement; and given Cuba's economic ruin, those who do regain industrial or commercial properties may be required to pump new investment into them...
Today, as director of Harvard’s Personal Genome Project (PGP)—which promises to make DNA sequencing a faster and more cost-efficient process—his quest to improve our knowledge of genetics with the aid of computer science continues...
...test of Homeland Security and it failed stunningly and astonishingly,” he says.And while he calls the performance of the federal government “absolutely, outrageously flawed,” Horne says he still believes in the future of New Orleans. With tax credits and federal aid now pouring into the city, Horne says, “New Orleans could be on the cusp of another boom.”Horne, who was a member of The Advocate at Harvard, says his time at Harvard prepared him for the challenges of Katrina because the civil unrest...
...city Monday - the vacuum left by the limits on what America is prepared to do diplomatically is already being filled by its rivals for influence in the region. The French foreign minister Phillipe Doust-Blazy showed up in Beirut Monday with a phalanx of bodyguards and promises of humanitarian aid. The Syrians, forced out of Lebanon only a year ago, are squirming their way back with oil supplies and electricity. Iran's foreign minister arrives today...
...became a communist as a youth, well before Fidel, insisted that "only the Communist Party" can rule Cuba and "anything else is pure speculation." But at the same time, Raul may carry more perestroika in his political DNA than Fidel does. When the Soviet Union's lavish economic aid to Cuba disappeared in the early 1990s and many Cubans faced possible starvation, Raul convinced a reluctant Fidel to reopen the island's private agricultural markets as an incentive to increase food production. "Beans are more important than rifles," he insisted. Latell agrees: "It was Raul, not Fidel, who realized that...