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...says Ruprecht Polenz, head of the Bundestag's foreign-affairs committee. "When you have good cooperation on the economy, there are opportunities for both sides." Alexander Rahr, a Russia specialist at the German Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin, says economic issues have come to predominate. "Merkel can't conduct a pro-human rights, pro-ngo policy toward Russia because then how can she defend German business?" Yet even Merkel, raised in East Germany, publicly criticized repression in Chechnya while meeting with Putin in Moscow. She is "cooler and more pragmatic" toward Russia than Schröder, says Rahr. Polenz...
...goals of stem cell research are widely endorsed by scientists and diverse scientific societies, but recognizing that in order for scientists to be seen acting in the best interest of science and the public, ISSCR called for guidelines for ethical conduct," said George Daley, chair of the task force and a stem cell researcher at Children's Hospital in Boston...
...variety of employers around the country are trying to address these issues by allowing more flex-time and family leave,” said Whyte. “But in terms of Harvard, a lot of the problems have to do with the ways the senior searches are conducted and the ways in which those are not friendly to women candidates.”The report contains a number of new guidelines designed to make searches for new faculty more equitable. For example, the report calls for search committees to be “diverse in background, perspective, and expertise...
...current military tribunals. The court did leave open to possibility that the White House can ask Congress to have its special court system enshrined in law. But that is a humbling alternative for an Administration that has long held that the President's inherent wartime powers allow him to conduct such tribunals without consulting Congress...
...more aggressive use of the Sherman Antitrust Act in other cases. He also established a Department of Commerce and Labor, which included a Bureau of Corporations to monitor the budding monopolies. Roosevelt endlessly reassured Big Business that he intended merely to keep an eye on its conduct. But he let it be known that he meant business too. Only "the corporation that shrinks from the light" would have anything to fear from government, he once said. Then he added, "About the welfare of such corporations we need not be oversensitive...