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...experimental group, researchers ramped up the temperature 7° Fahrenheit (4° Celsius), the rough midpoint of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's business-as-usual predictions for warming in this century. "We thought temperature might play a big role, but that was speculation until we could conduct an experiment," says Adams. "The great thing about Biosphere 2 is that it allowed us to test this...
...unexpected twist, Stafford Smith now faces possible imprisonment himself. The British lawyer has been summoned with his Reprieve colleague Ahmed Ghappour to appear before the Columbia District Court on May 11, to answer a complaint of "unprofessional conduct" lodged by the Pentagon's Privilege Review Team (PRT). If found guilty in what amounts to a contempt charge, Stafford Smith and Ghappour face up to six months in prison...
...said that these policies do not go far enough to prevent conflicts of interest in industry-funded research. He said that researchers in academia should have primary control over the data, and that currently many investigators are provided with summary data by the industry and are not allowed to conduct their own data analysis, which is done by the drug company itself. He said pharmaceutical companies might not release data that are damaging to their investigations, and, as a result, hospital investigators might be unaware that they are publishing a study without all the information. But Eric G. Campbell...
...College could minimize costs during January without resorting to drastic measures. To gauge how many students intend to stay on campus for their January Experience, the administration could conduct a survey early in the year and then decide how many dining halls, libraries, and other facilities to keep open during the interlude. Cutting back on the usage of such facilities would hopefully generate enough savings to allow every student wishing to remain at Harvard to live in his or her room...
...brother Livio told reporters Thursday via conference call. But the U.S. may have felt emboldened to indict Posada this week for perjury in no small part because the FBI - whose informants have linked Posada to the 1976 airline bombing, and whose agents in 2006 traveled to Havana to conduct their own investigation of the hotel bombings - in turn may have stronger evidence of Posada's participation. One of the issues Posada is accused of lying about is whether he arranged for a Salvadoran man, Raul Cruz Leon, to take explosives to Cuba in 1997. Dennis Jett, an international-relations professor...