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...money will be given to the Day Laboratory for Neuromuscular Research, a branch of Massachusetts General Hospital dedicated to investigating genetic defects that cause neuromuscular paralysis...
Confusion spread in Asia last week after China’s top news agency erroneously reported that Harvard University plans to open a branch school in collaboration with the Sha’anxi International Trade College in central China...
When Sheed & Ward established a New York publishing branch, Frank used his circuit riding to recruit authors. In England, the "Pied Publishers" signed Monsignor Ronald Knox, Evelyn Waugh's favorite priest, and in America, the Rev. Fulton Sheen, for whom Wilfrid worked briefly and unenthusiastically after finishing his education at Oxford. Billing his proselytizing parents as "kings of the Catholic world from John o' Groats to Borneo," Sheed asserts they stirred up the forces that "would change the face of American Catholicism." But he never makes quite clear how; perhaps it was by sheer exuberance. In any case, the winds...
...communism and capitalism, China's policymakers send off a mix of policy signals: some tightening, some loosening. Last week the government announced a two-year ban on automobile imports. But authorities also moved closer to institutionalizing stock trading, a practice that has been illegal since Mao's revolution. A branch of Shanghai Investment and Trust has been authorized to oversee the buying and selling of stocks and distribution of dividends...
...continued talks with Jordan's King Hussein. Despite Peres' repeated denials that he had met secretly with Hussein in Paris last month, the Prime Minister admitted for the first time that "secret negotiations" have been under way between Israel and Jordan. That news came as Jordan extended an olive branch to Syria, thus perhaps paving the way for a Syrian role in Hussein's peace brokering. While the Israeli crisis was in full cry, Terry Waite, an adviser to Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie, flew to Beirut to try to negotiate the release of four American hostages...