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...have cleared Harvard (and two cooperating Chinese universities) of wrongdoing, save a few minor procedural lapses. A Chinese scientist from the prestigious Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) who looked into the case also found no evidence of malpractice; all the peasants he spoke to said they gave informed consent...
...reported at Harvard fall under a category defined by the Clery Act as sexual acts “directed against another person, forcibly and/or against that person’s will; or not forcibly or against the person’s will where the victim in incapable of giving consent...
...perching on busy sidewalks hawking new editions of everything from pulp thrillers to the autobiography of former General Electric CEO Jack Welch to the latest novels from highbrow writers such as Salman Rushdie. Up to one quarter of all books sold in India are copies printed without the publishers' consent, according to Sukumar Das, president of the Federation of Publishers' and Booksellers' Associations of India. P.M. Sukumar, vice president of sales and marketing at Penguin India, estimates that piracy slashes his company's sales in India by 20%. "If the problem is unchecked," Sukumar says, "it will seriously harm...
This low rate of conversion is partially attributable to the difficulty OPOs face in asking for family consent at a particularly sensitive time—directly following the brain death of the potential donor...
...terms of policy changes, Guadagnoli suggests that the United States, where “family consent is usually always required even if the deceased has signed a donor card,” could learn from Spain, where “organ donation is assumed...