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...Despite an audience bereft of undergraduates, the subject of education at the college level also received a significant amount of attention from the panelists...
...will $63,791.21 buy the UC its financial autonomy from the administration? Not a chance. The amount is too much for a rainy day, and too little for a hurricane. Even if innocent clerical errors, late deposits from University Hall, and the UC’s emergency reserves are taken into account, there remain tens of thousands of dollars that ought to have been spent that were not. The miraculous shortfall-turned-windfall is almost certainly produced by a blend incompetence and unwarranted over-cautiousness, and not prescience, on the UC’s part...
...Their 21 participants had stage IV metastatic breast cancer, which had continued to progress despite an average of four rounds of standard treatment, including chemo and hormone therapy. The patients took 12 g a day of Ban Zhi Lian, a dose that's three times more concentrated than the amount found in a cup of brewed tea. After about a year, 25% of the patients saw stabilization in their disease for 90 days, and 19% for 180 days. The experimenters say BZL101 works by preventing cancer cells from undergoing glycolysis, a process of glycogen breakdown that accounts for as much...
...odds, Colombia's Supreme Court has been making unprecedented progress in investigating links between paramilitaries and politicians close to the President," said Jose Miguel Vivanco, Americas director at the Washington-based Human Rights Watch. "President Uribe's phone calls to the judge charged with these highly sensitive investigations amount to political pressure that could intimidate the court and affect the outcome of the cases...
...economic costs of climate change produced by a Nicholas Stern, a respected economist, for the British government, notes that the negative impacts of climate change will be borne disproportionately by the world’s poorest people. Even if, as the report suggests, the cost of global warming will amount to 5-14 percent of global GDP, it is hard for Americans to fixate even briefly on the environment when the recent mortgage market collapse threatens a far more severe and dispersed economic impact...