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...should feel reassured that authorities are giving primacy to the protection of the general population - and be further comforted by the absence of additional attacks on British soil. The fact that many people say they aren't speaks not only of a concern for civil liberties, but of a broader unease that the government doesn't fully grasp the modern terrorist threat. Until that knowledge gap has been filled and communicated, the clampdowns, arrests and pumped-up legislation are unlikely to reverse the continuing sense of anxiety...
...most part, the ISSCR's draft follows guidelines released by the National Academy of Sciences in the US, with a few notable exceptions. The NAS recommended that each institute establish its own Stem Cell Research Oversight Committee, while ISSCR is suggesting a broader approach, allowing for this review to occur at the institute, national or international level. Most importantly, the ISSCR will provide researchers with template documents that cover critical safety and ethical issues such as informed consent that review boards need to consider in trials involving the use of human embryonic stem cells - and even the transport of these...
...Amgen, Inc. Professor of Biology Nancy Hopkins ’64, who has led numerous task forces at MIT that studied and publicized the challenges facing female academics at major universities, said that the survey may be biased towards some concerns among junior faculty and overlook broader problems faced by women at all levels of academia.“The difficulty of having a family the way these careers are structured is well-documented and it probably looms large in the minds of young women who are thinking about that sort of career,” said Hopkins, who sparked...
...contrast to Menand’s words on this year’s committee, the work of the 2004-2005 committee was often shrouded in secrecy, compromising the process of general education reform, according to some professors. The committee has also been criticized of working independently of broader faculty discussions...
...Military considerations - his perceived need for good roads to transport troops and materiel over far-flung continental distances - initially compelled Eisenhower. But, with the force of an idea whose time had arrived, the system and its eventual designers found broader inspirations - the German Autobahn, as well as the parkways built by New Yorker Robert Moses as early as the 1930s and the futuristic highway visions of Norman Bel Geddes and French Modernist Le Corbusier...