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...prove he had organized the protest and that it had caused substantial material harm. Chen argued compellingly that the prosecution's case rested on a report by an appraisal company that explicitly stated it had treated all the mining firm's claims as fact-instead of conducting an independent audit-and on an eyewitness account by someone who had been miles away from the scene of the protest. Chen also called a witness who testified under oath to having been coerced by police into signing an affidavit he had not read. But despite the presence of dozens of onlookers (including...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Quest for Justice | 12/11/2006 | See Source »

Universities might not be doing enough to guard “sensitive information” in their research labs, “potentially putting at risk U.S. national security interests,” according to a federal audit released this week. The audit, from the Government Accountability Office (GAO), suggests that schools receiving Defense Department funding aren’t doing enough to guard their gadgets from foreign countries and terrorists. Though it wasn’t mentioned by name in the report, Harvard received $21.9 million in Defense Department research funding in the 2005 fiscal year, the most recent...

Author: By Ronald K. Kamdem, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Feds: Guard Research Better | 12/8/2006 | See Source »

...recent meeting with students, FAS Executive Dean Nancy L. Maull agreed to set up an Energy Audit Task Force to recommend a target reduction for greenhouse gas emissions, according to Jake C. Levine ’06-’07, co-chair of the Environmental Action Committee (EAC), which supported the UC bill...

Author: By Alexandra Hiatt, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Students Vote on Greener Harvard | 12/6/2006 | See Source »

...record pace: 13,001 cars and trucks in his 15 years as a salesman before retiring at the age of 49. His stratospheric sales figures attracted the attention of the Guinness Book of World Records, which had Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu—then called Deloitte and Touche—audit his records to verify their legitimacy before including him in the book...

Author: By Clifford M. Marks, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Selling Cars To Selling Character | 11/30/2006 | See Source »

...Let’s begin with the issue of food waste. HUDS’ food waste audits have revealed that the average student leaves approximately 100 pounds of uneaten food on his tray over the course of a school year. Multiplying the recent audit figures by the number of undergraduates, we find that students are wasting a prodigious 400,000-700,000 pounds of food each year. The Resource Efficiency Program valiantly attempts to convince students to minimize their food waste, but in the end, students have little motivation to comply. Why shouldn’t we pile up three...

Author: By Nikhil G. Mathews | Title: Capitalism for Dinner | 11/28/2006 | See Source »

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