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...unusual for environmental initiatives to begin at the state level, filtering up to Washington, and that may be the case with climate change legislation as well. State governors, Schweitzer points out, are executives who need to respond to the demands of their voters if they want to stay in office - and climate change is on the public's mind. Congress and the President, on the other hand, are more insulated. But that needs to change. As heartening as the various state initiatives have been - more than half the states in the U.S. now have climate change legislation of some kind...
...fact, no matter whether the KMT's Ma or the DPP's Hsieh wins the presidential election in March, Taiwan will most likely begin to have direct trade and air links to China. Currently, what would be just a 90-minute trip between Taipei and Shanghai is a nearly seven-hour haul through a third city, usually Hong Kong. Taiwan's businessmen have lobbied for direct flights for years, but China has been unwilling to negotiate because of its anger at Chen...
Construction is scheduled to begin this spring for an Allston science complex—an 589,000 square-foot project expected to cost nearly $1 billion. But before the University can break ground on its first project across the river, it must first sign a legally binding cooperation agreement that includes a plan for how benefits will be distributed to the community...
...Advising Programs Office (APO) will be two years old this February, and we are now taking stock of our programs to begin to chart future directions. I would like to thank the many students, faculty, administrators, and alumni who have shared their ideas with us. Some of you continue to advise and assist us on all aspects of our work. It is only through the contributions of others that the APO can develop and continually improve undergraduate advising, and sharpen our vision of what it is and should...
Lo’s goal for the past year has been to clone the main enzyme involved in reverse transcription, the process by which viruses, including HIV, make DNA and begin taking over human cells...