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Gary Orfield, co-director of the Civil Rights Project, challenged Boston...
...being done by private security companies stocked with former soldiers looking for good money and the taste of danger. Pentagon officials count roughly 20 private companies around the world that contract for security work, mainly in combat areas. They are finding plenty of it in Iraq. Scott Custer, a co-director of Custer Battles, based in Fairfax, Va., says as many as 30,000 Iraqis and "several thousand expats" are working for private outfits in Iraq. Security contractors make a lot more than the average soldier, but last week's events suggest that they may also be turning into more...
...solution, says engineer Bob Bernhard, co-director of Purdue University's Institute for Safe, Quiet and Durable Highways, is to change not the tires but the road surface. "You can make the pavement porous," he says, "which affects the air-pumping mechanism. You can also mix a little rubber in with the asphalt, which changes the road's stiffness." Porous surfaces are already being rolled out in parts of Georgia, Florida and Arizona, as well as in Europe...
...Harvard’s most public academics. In 1999, he testified before the Senate, making a personal plea for approval of stem-cell research. This November, he developed a semi-subversive program to push his research forward despite government embargos. And in March, Harvard announced Melton would be co-director of a multi-million dollar center for stem cell research based at the University...
...with controversial research is a very interesting way to “address” peoples’ concerns. Indeed, the University has shown no reluctance to shelve ethical considerations to be at the forefront of stem cell research: Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences Douglas A. Melton, another co-director of the new center, announced two weeks ago that he and a team of scientists would release 17 stem cell lines which they had extracted over the past few years...