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...numerous business associates, including banks and insurers that stopped doing business with the company because they were tired of the aggravation and fearful for their own workers' safety. HLS board members, too, have stepped down. "We will do our utmost to protect the safety of these people," says Brian Cass, HLS's managing director. But Cass himself was beaten outside his home by masked men in 2001. One man, not connected with SHAC, jailed in the attack was a longtime animal-rights extremist. HLS has been in business since 1952, but it became notorious much later - on March...
...Huntingdon had been forced to close, says Cass, Britain would have lost vital pharmaceutical, biochemical and agrochemical research work - "and who's going to invest in the U.K. if a few demonstrators can drive a company out of business?" Once the government understood that, says Cass, it was "tremendous" in its support. Sixteen months after he was assaulted, Cass - a nonscientist - was honored by the Queen for services to medical research. "We happen to be the target now," says Cass, "but it could be someone else tomorrow. The government knows that." That knowledge has helped fuel the newest animal-testing...
...links in a range of diseases. Since the program ended in 1998, four separate inquiries by both Chinese and American review boards have cleared Harvard (and two cooperating Chinese universities) of wrongdoing, save a few minor procedural lapses. A Chinese scientist from the prestigious Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) who looked into the case also found no evidence of malpractice; all the peasants he spoke to said they gave informed consent...
...China fanning an old, seemingly dead controversy? Timing has a lot to do with it; Harvard scientists were preparing to restart the project. Xenophobia from China's old-guard establishment is a factor too. According to another scientist at CASS who has closely followed the case: "There are some senior leaders in the government who are unhappy about international institutes doing research in China." In nationalistic China, politics trump science...
...with any court, what Rehnquist has built could be torn down over time, but it would not be a day's work. "His doctrines are quite entrenched," says Chicago law professor Cass Sunstein, "both because the court respects its own precedents and because there aren't any liberals on the bench. There are moderates, but nobody is leading a countercharge." If anything, it's more likely--particularly if Bush is re-elected--that a conservative will also replace liberal John Paul Stevens, 83. That would give conservatives their Holy Grail, an unstoppable majority. Such a majority would certainly consolidate...