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...size of individual grants shrinks, university researchers have to win more of them to keep research going, which requires enormous amounts of extra paperwork. "It's decreased their quality of life," says Paul Jennings, provost of Caltech and a civil engineer. When students see how much time a professor spends on bureaucratic busywork, says Jennings, they say, "I don't want to do that." It's not just red tape either, says Paul Nurse, president of Rockefeller University and a 2001 Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine. "If we compare what our best undergraduates get paid as a graduate student...
Coretta Scott King, the widow of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr., died in her sleep early Tuesday morning at the age of 78. She had worked tirelessly after her husband's death in 1968 to carry on his legacy and only recently began to slow down her efforts. Having suffered a stroke in August 2005, King made a surprising appearance at a children's program in mid-January during events surrounding the annual commemoration of King's birthday. Passive and regal in a wheelchair, King did not speak but welcomed a line of children to her side...
...Both were struck by the specific injustice of the segregation of the Montgomery City Bus Lines, which became a national issue when Rosa Parks made her stand in that city in 1955. After that incident, the Dexter Avenue church became a growing meeting place for civil rights activists. Soon, King's life and legacy began to take shape in a public sphere, while at home four children would soon enter the their household...
...Turks; by a court in Istanbul. The World War I killings are controversial in Turkey, which denies that Ottoman forces committed genocide. Pamuk's case was much watched because Turkey has come under scrutiny from the E.U.--which it is applying to join--over whether it adequately protects civil liberties...
...really very hard to tell people to think at work but not at home." CONDOLEEZZA RICE, U.S. Secretary of State, calling on China to expand its citizens' civil liberties...