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...grown at a rate of about 10% a year for a decade. The government has done whatever it needed to do to keep the economy on track. It has underwritten the build-up of the manufacturing sector, the telecom and electric infrastructure, and a large and complex financial system. It has also sold parts of the nation's largest companies to the public to give the companies more access to capital. The communist central government says it will put about $585 billion into the domestic economy in order to stimulate consumption and business expansion...
...real victims are the birds themselves. Chickens are complex animals, capable of communicating a wealth of information through 24 distinct cries. Dr. Joy Mench, professor of animal science at UC Davis, notes, “Chickens show sophisticated social behavior… They can recognize more than a hundred other chickens and remember them.” Dr. Chris Evans of Macquarie University adds that chickens can understand that a hidden object continues to exist—a comprehension beyond the ability of small children...
...should also be a boon for Harvard’s stem cell initiatives, for it should stimulate our research programs. This excitement is somewhat attenuated, however in light of our university’s current science related woes. It is unfortunate that we have slowed construction of the science complex in Allston, which has pushed stem cell research into old laboratories unequipped for such advanced procedures. We have already begun to witness the fallout created by the Allston delay: a few prominent professors of Molecular and Cellular Biology, displaced by the recent changes, have threatened to leave the university...
...working with them makes you crazy yourself. That point has been reached with North Korea. Washington has shown a willingness to talk with nations with which it has not always had strong relations, from Russia to potential Taliban members. Wasting time satisfying North Korea’s national Napoleon complex, however, is not worth the new administration’s efforts...
...pleased with the way that the team competed,” Harvard coach Jason Saretsky said. The women’s ECAC Championships, which is a meet mainly for individual rather than team competition, also took place this past Saturday and Sunday, at the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Complex in Boston. “It’s been a very long indoor season,” said hurdler Dara Wilson, who lead the Ivies last week in the 60-meter hurdles with an 8.76-second finish. “I think, given all of those things, [Saturday...