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...Medical Institute will give $600 million to 56 U.S.-based scientists studying long-term topics like global warming's effect on the spread of disease and the genetic basis of smell. Researchers will be free to adapt their projects and follow up new leads without scrounging for funding, an approach the institute hopes will lead to major medical breakthroughs decades from...
...would seat roughly half of each delegation (which is how the Republicans punished Florida and Michigan for moving their contests up). Under that scenario, which DNC lawyers have said is the party's only real recourse, Clinton would gain the larger share of delegates, but not nearly enough to approach Obama...
...often concentrating corporate power in one person, the U.S. takes a very different approach from much of the rest of the world. Almost all companies in Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, South Africa and Australia split the CEO and chairman roles, sometimes because of the law, and sometimes because of other conventions. Companies listed on the London Stock Exchange, for example, are allowed to have the same person serving as both CEO and chairman - but they must provide a compelling reason why. As a result, some 95% of British companies split the job. Simon Wong, who studied the topic...
...illegal to consider race when determining whether families are suitable to raise adopted children - the law was intended to increase adoptions of black children, who are disproportionately represented in the foster care system, by making it easier for whites to take them home. But a new study suggests that approach is short-sighted. "Color-blind" adoption, the report contends, allows some white parents - who may not be mentally ready or have the appropriate social tools to parent black children - to raise youngsters, who may, in turn, experience social and psychological problems later in life...
...There was a peculiar offhandedness to the way Warren invited the conference, at the very end of the proceedings, to join his coalition - an approach that may reflect concern about getting drawn too deeply into the specifics of a plan that promises to be extremely complicated and possibly controversial. The PEACE program is an attempt to radically re-engineer Evangelicalism's huge missionary culture, connecting individual churches in the U.S. to congregations in target countries rather than funneling aid and evangelism through agencies that send trained professionals into the field. One of the coalition's theoretical benefits would be efficiency...