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...people of southern Africa, who use the tree's hollow branches as quivers for their arrows. Scientists have discovered that quiver trees are starting to die off in parts of their traditional range. The species might be in the early stages of moving southward, trying to escape rising temperatures closer to the equator...
...time to record not one but two full albums of his touching love songs while in office. Ultimately, Berlusconi’s miraculous powers are undeniable—especially with the peninsular judicial system. As he loves to assert, he has never been convicted of a crime. But a closer look suggests something rotten in the Italian Civil Code. With perfect timing, the Italian Parliament altered the statute of limitations and narrowed the scope of EU convictions to “protect Italian sovereignty.” Surprisingly, those changes also made Berlusconi untouchable. And emulating any credible Messiah...
...Sciences’ Educational Policy Committee (EPC) met yesterday to “clean up” their legislation that proposes postponing concentration choice to the middle of sophomore year and adding “secondary concentrations” akin to minors. The meeting moves FAS one step closer to casting its first votes on the curricular review. The legislation will be presented to the 19-member Faculty Council today and will likely face a final vote at the April 4 meeting of the full Faculty. Initial drafts of the legislation were presented at the March 14 meeting...
...Iran; democracy activists in Belarus take to the streets to denounce the electoral farce that returned the authoritarian Alexander Lukashenko to power; Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice holds a security summit in Australia with her counterparts from that country and Japan. Yet those headlines, together with the ones announcing closer economic ties and strategic ties during President Putin's visit to Beijing, hint at how Sino-Russian concerns over U.S. policy elsewhere may prolong the Iran deadlock...
...study published by Harvard Medical School researchers last week may bring doctors one step closer to finding a cure for asthma. Until now, the scientific community had thought that one form of immune cells, “helper T cells,” were behind the respiratory ailment. But a new study, designed by Havard immunologist Dale T. Umetsu and executed by Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Omid Akbari along with Stanford researcher John Faul, has implicated a different type of immune cell, “natural killer T” (NKT) cells. The discovery has prompted talk...