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...tune of "Everybody Dance Now," Albert H. Cho '02 and Jessica A. Fragola '04 stripped down to their underwear--in protest Harvard's membership in the Fair Labor Association (FLA), a consortium founded by manufacturing companies such as Nike to monitor working conditions in foreign factories...
HSAS members criticize FLA because its governing board is made up of representatives from the companies it intends to supervise. The group urges Harvard to instead join the Workers Rights Consortium (WRC), a group run by labor and human rights organizations...
...perhaps we can. Last month a well-known infertility specialist, Panayiotis Zavos of the University of Kentucky, announced that he and Italian researcher Severino Antinori, the man who almost seven years ago helped a 62-year-old woman give birth using donor eggs, were forming a consortium to produce the first human clone. Researchers in South Korea claim they have already created a cloned human embryo, though they destroyed it rather than implanting it in a surrogate mother to develop. Recent cover stories in Wired and the New York Times Magazine tracked the efforts of the Raelians, a religious group...
...exception should be the Indian state of Maharashtra, which has electricity galore, thanks to a major power complex set up by Dabhol Power Co., a consortium of foreign companies led by Enron Corp. of Houston, Texas. But before Maharashtrans fire up their irrigation pumps or coiled-wire tea kettles, there's one small snag: the electricity is so expensive no one can afford it. "More than 600 small manufacturers have already closed down because of high electricity bills," says Ashwin Treasurer, owner of an electronic component factory. "What sort of development is this...
...separate counts of the whole state are completed. The Herald and its parent, the Knight Ridder chain of newspapers, has counted all but two counties. (Officials in upstate Duval and Holmes counties have postponed the recount, fearing further disruption if the ballots were subpoenaed in lawsuits.) Meanwhile, a consortium of news organizations, including the Associated Press, the New York Times and CNN, has hired the National Opinion Research Center, a non-profit firm out of the University of Chicago, to examine nearly 200,000 ballots that did not register any vote at all, including ballots where no vote was clearly...