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...Harvard is to stop enabling oppression in developing nations like El Salvador, it must join the Workers Rights Consortium of other concerned schools. This organization operates on the principles of full disclosure and transparency. Harvard's membership in the Workers Rights Consortium's rival, corporate Fair Labor Association only lends legitimacy to a wildly compromised cover-up attempt...
...Human Genome Project had successfully decoded an entire human chromosome--an incredible milestone for the field of genetics and for science in general. For those unfamiliar with the history behind the announcement, the Human Genome Project is a public initiative that was started in 1990 and that involves a consortium of universities from around the world (it is financed in the United States by the National Institutes of Health). The ultimate goal is to map each and every segment of DNA that composes the 23 pairs of human chromosomes...
...connections to other destinations. Yet it may soon become the human race's most exclusive - and expensive - vacation spot. Where in the world is this? Try out of this world: This weekend, at a conference marking the one-year anniversary of the privately held International Space Station, a consortium of international companies unveiled a proposal to add hotel suites to the orbiting facility...
...rides - price tag, $98,000 - and expects to launch in 2002. Further, NASA's top brass has urged Washington in recent years to allow civilian forays into outer space, including private rides on the space shuttle. Boeing, the primary developer of the International Space Station, is also leading the consortium to build the hotel, and would not rule out that it could be used to house vacationing civilians. It suddenly appears that the trillions the U.S. sank into its space program in the '80s may have been more than simply hubris, creating an infrastructure that will allow it to corner...
...most authoritative predictions about future warming come from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a worldwide consortium of more than 2,000 climate scientists. The current forecast is that by 2100 the earth's temperature will go up 1[degree] to 3.5[degrees]C (2[degrees] to 7[degrees]F), with the best guess being an increase of 2[degrees]C (4[degrees...