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...Cabeza Prieta is just one part of the 2,000-mile-long border that conservationists are increasingly worried about. While politicians of all stripes focus on the human side of the noisy immigration debate, there is a rising concern over what illegal immigration and the U.S. response to it may do to the area's fragile ecosystems. The $7.6 billion federal Secure Border Initiative passed last year calls for the construction of 370 miles of pedestrian fence along the border by 2008 - 129 miles in Arizona, 153 in Texas, 76 in California and 12 in New Mexico. Pedestrian fences have...
...question-is there a bubble in China stocks?-is of global concern because of the knock-on effect a meltdown could have on markets worldwide. After soaring 130% last year, the Shanghai Composite Index suddenly buckled on Feb. 27, plunging 8.8% and giving investors in the rest of the world a sudden case of the Chinese flu. Since then, however, China stocks have resumed their near-vertical ascent, in recent weeks setting record highs almost daily. By some estimates, there is now more money in the Shanghai stock market than there is in bank savings accounts nationwide-this...
...health. “With a little more time, we might really be turning the corner.” Knowles’ absence at this spring’s many Faculty meetings and within University Hall has been a jarring one. “The outpouring of concern from the Harvard community has been wonderfully sustaining for Jeremy and all the family,” Jane Knowles said in her statement. “No one could ask for more caring colleagues, friends, and students.” Like his peer in Mass. Hall, the British chemist?...
...faculty members oppose Harvard’s rules governing clinical trials, since those rules directly concern the health of patients. But when Harvard officials shut down basic research efforts because of conflict-of-interest concerns, some faculty members say the University is stepping over the line...
...concern is that a faculty member’s financial ties will skew the results of research. “When money is in play, mischief is a constant companion,” Thrall says...