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...outlines of this new mission are not new, but TIME has uncovered enough fresh details to construct the fullest picture yet of the CIA's secret army. It spoke to past and current intelligence officials, including an active member of the SOG, as well as to detractors within the Pentagon. Our report...
When is the last time that you had an informal discussion with your friends about slavery? Chances are, if you had such a conversation recently, you were either discussing slavery as a historical topic or as a philosophical construct. If you were discussing slavery in the context of current events, your conversation may have been about the issue of reparations. However, like the majority of Harvard students—and of Americans—you were probably unaware that slavery itself is not simply an institution of the past, but a current practice that continues to oppress tens of millions...
...tribal expenses and paying the salaries of the tribe's officials, all of this before a spade of dirt is turned. If an Indian band isn't federally recognized as a tribe and is thus ineligible for a gaming venture, these full-service backers will bankroll genealogists to construct a family tree, then hire lawyers and lobbyists in Washington to help change the band's status. And if a reservation isn't prime real estate for a casino, the investors sometimes purchase a more suitable patch and instruct their lawyers and lobbyists to persuade the government to designate the land...
...find myself caring a lot and feeling really involved, not in some useful political way, in the details of things,” she says over coffee at Daedalus. “But I don’t know how much of that is me just wanting to construct myself after the image of Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.” She brightens, looking around her. “And here we are at Daedalus. See? Anyone who knows me will say it: I’m totally a dork...
...research groups recently received a $100 million grant from the International Human Genome Project to jumpstart the work. For its part, the Whitehead Genome Center has been given $8.4 million to help construct a catalog of DNA variations, called the “International HapMap...