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...institute establish its own Stem Cell Research Oversight Committee, while ISSCR is suggesting a broader approach, allowing for this review to occur at the institute, national or international level. Most importantly, the ISSCR will provide researchers with template documents that cover critical safety and ethical issues such as informed consent that review boards need to consider in trials involving the use of human embryonic stem cells - and even the transport of these cells among different labs in different countries...
...unit manipulated propane prices in February 2004 to drive up prices and score a quick $20 million profit. According to a lawsuit filed in a Chicago federal court by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, BP traders tried to corner the market for propane ?with the knowledge, advice and consent of senior management.? This wasn?t the first time BP has been accused of price fixing. In 2003, the company paid a $2.5 million penalty to the New York Mercantile Exchange to settle charges of improper crude-oil trading (the firm didn?t admit or deny wrongdoing). BP has since...
Khamenei isn't likely to consent to giving up Iran's nuclear prerogatives without a price. The Bush Administration's agreement to join European-sponsored negotiations with Tehran is seen by Iranians as a major coup for Khamenei's hard-bargaining strategy. Those close to the cleric say he may ultimately be willing to agree to limits on Iran's nuclear program if direct talks with the U.S. lead to security guarantees and a lifting of the U.S. embargo on Iran. "The regime is dying to negotiate," says Jalaipour. Now Khamenei needs Washington to show it feels that...
...example, the imperial family stays in place in part thanks to a compliant press, which preserves a veil over its many difficulties, in part through a determination to keep its private lives relatively private. Monarchs can only function if we don't look at them too closely, and quietly consent to the notion that they can bring us all together...
...will then have named its 28th president.DEMANDING A VOICE As with many of Harvard’s institutions, the presidential search is rooted in tradition.The 1650 that charter that founded the College states the president of the University is to be chosen by the Corporation with the counsel and consent of the Board of Overseers.The highly-secretive search has changed little over the years, save the addition of three overseers to the search committee in 1990.The process is as unique as it is enduring. According to Judith Block McLaughlin, a senior lecturer on education at Harvard’s Graduate...