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...threatening and anonymous phone calls. Even the seriously flawed 2006 Violence Against Women and Department of Justice Reauthorization Act only punishes only those spammers who send e-mails “without disclosing his identity and with intent to annoy.” There is no precedent for a broad stroke against hurting people’s feelings on a social network...
...international project involving scientists from the United States and South Africa has made a major step forward in the ongoing global fight against tuberculosis (TB). By sequencing the genes of the most deadly strains of the bacteria responsible for TB, researchers from both the Broad Institute—a joint Harvard and MIT research organization—and the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa hope they have opened the door to a new way of studying TB and its effects. Megan Murray, an associate professor at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), co-led the project, which...
...which was correlated with much more severe symptoms. Previous studies which examined the parasite in laboratory cultures had only found one group. The study, published yesterday in the online edition of the journal Nature, was the result of an international collaboration between researchers at institutions including the Broad Institute—a joint Harvard-MIT venture—and the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). To study the parasite in vivo, Johanna P. Daily—an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and the first author of the study—collected blood samples from over...
...leading the so-called democratator trend in the region. In Bolivia and Ecuador, left-wing Presidents and Chvez allies Evo Morales and Rafael Correa are hammering out new Constitutions that would let them run for re-election indefinitely. In Nicaragua, President Daniel Ortega, hoping to relive the broad Marxist powers he enjoyed as President in the 1980s, is ruling virtually by decree. In Argentina, many suspect that the leftist husband-and-wife team of outgoing President Nestor Kirchner and President-elect Cristina Fernndez de Kirchner intend to alternate in the Casa Rosada (the Pink House, or presidential palace...
...While electability will still remain important for many individuals, taking a broad look at early-state voters and the nation as a whole shows a striking lack of consensus. So, please repeat after me: I will stop worrying about electability since I really don’t know how things will be. I will focus on issues and choose the candidate best suited to be president...