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...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...
...schools, where many troubled kids are bouncing through foster care, are stunned by the power of the books over their students. "Many of these kids have grown up without parents, but they still have to make moral choices in their lives," notes Ebony Thomas, 25, an English teacher at Cass Tech High School in Detroit. "Before, those choices might have been dictated by church, by family, by community; now you have to face that alone, and the choice lies within yourself. This is a generation that really needs Harry Potter...
...Connor would find the undergraduate program too rigid, she would not be willing to say race simply could not be a factor, as the Court's other four conservative members did. "Justice O'Connor wanted to stay in the basic universe Powell created," said University of Chicago Law Professor Cass Sunstein. Her opinion ensures that Powell's universe, in which race is a factor in admissions but can't be used in a quota or point system, will remain in place. "That precedent (Bakke) has now been codified into law," said Blum...