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...common wisdom that the women of Africa are the backbone of the continent, yet these presidential positions generally go to warriors,” said Hunt, who is also the director of the KSG’s Women and Public Policy Program, which brought Johnson-Sirleaf to campus in August...
...religious activists, many are still skeptical.These two methods, both published in Nature magazine, reflect the burgeoning interest of U.S. researchers in developing alternative ways to create embryonic stem cell lines without having to destroy an embryo. Current federal restrictions limit embryonic stem cell research to cell lines created before August 2001, mainly because opponents of such research claim that traditional methods of creating cell lines require the destruction of embryos. Such a process, they say, is equivalent to murder.The method used by scientists at Advanced Cell Technology—a biotechnology company based in Worcester, Mass.—takes...
...would train together in the boathouse, and when that got boring they would train outside together. Eventually they began rowing a pair together on the Charles, and that got them thirsting for the sweet nectar of competition.Enter Canadian Henley, a well-known regatta that ran during this summer from August 2 to 7 in St. Catherines, Ontario, and attracts teams from across North America.“We started thinking about it in June,” Rose said. “On a whim one night we were like ‘Let’s do this...
...vote ensures the enactment of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's plan to privatize the three functions of Japan's $3 trillion postal system, including the world's largest savings bank, by 2017. A cornerstone of Koizumi's reform agenda, the bills were voted down by the Upper House in August, causing the Prime Minister to call snap elections for the Lower House aimed at silencing critics of the plan?even those in his own party. (The Lower House ratified the bill earlier last week, 338 to 138.) Koizumi called the Upper House vote "a miracle in politics...
...wearing Steppers—had collaborated to raise money for such a cause. More than 1,000 tickets were sold, though exact attendance had not been tallied by yesterday night. The idea arose just days after the storm whipped through New Orleans and parts of Mississippi and Alabama on August 29, prompting massive flooding and violent lawlessness in a city that the groups would later pay tribute to. At the start of the show, Louis Armstrong’s voiced scratched the dark silence: “Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans...