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Bass Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel chaired a panel entitled “Women as Commodities: The Value of Gender.” He was joined by Mary Gordon, McIntosh professor of English at Barnard College; Leah Platt, a Harvard graduate student in economics; and Elizabeth Anderson, a professor of philosophy and women’s studies at the University of Michigan...
...would fire a perfectly tuned beam at Sinosat 1. Since two beams on the same frequency yield nothing but static, someone in Beijing had to shut down the official programming to let the illicit message through. The override was not a failure of Sinosat's encryption technology, says Ian Barnard, who runs China operations for the South African firm MIH, provider of the encryption software. So was it inept technicians? Or are there Falun Gong sympathizers somewhere in the state-run broadcasting industry? --By Matthew Forney
...Biomedical Research: "Podell's decision is, we fear, just the beginning of a destructive campaign against research that is fundamental to the discovery of treatments for diseases that plague both humans and animals." The activists say it's about time. "So many of these experiments are unnecessary," says Neal Barnard, president of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. "They should be stopped." --By Andrew Goldstein
After finishing college (Bernays at Barnard, Kaplan at Harvard), each settled in Manhattan seeking a job in publishing. She landed at Town & Country, where she accidentally set a fire in a pail. She moved on to the literary journal discovery. He found a job at Simon & Schuster. Through work, the two met, and sparks flew. "Annie had a core of sweetness, shrewdness and merriment," writes Kaplan. She was "immensely attractive, a proto-feminist, self-assured, easily amused, wary of anything pretentious, street-smart, privileged without ostentation or snobbery, comfortable with luxury but unspoiled by it, and professional minded." Bernays...
CAPTAINS Laura Barnard, Katie Gates