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...much about climate change as long as the U.S. stays on the sideline. "Obama signaled to the world that there is a true recognition that the global challenge of climate change requires U.S. leadership," says Jake Schmidt, the international climate policy director for the Natural Resources Defense Council...
...This procedure] challenges the idea that if you take foreign tissue it will end up being rejected," says Professor Steven Sacks, director of the Medical Research Council Centre for Transplantation in London, where he leads research on human-to-human transplants. "The potential has been open for a while, but this gives a living example that it can actually succeed...
...expire on Nov. 30. Hudson News—which is currently renting the city-owned newsstand—has indicated that it will not renew its five-year lease, and no new lessee has been found, City Manager Robert W. Healy said at Monday’s Cambridge City Council meeting. “The city has every right to get a reasonable rent for that property,” Councillor Sam Seidel said. “But the newspaper business is changing.” The City Manager’s office will now begin soliciting bids from...
...head: “It should have been me.” I began my own campaign for U.S. president at the tender age of nine, when I ran for class representative of the fourth grade at Adler Park Elementary School. Winning would propel me onto the student council, the venerable body that met once a month to discuss the important issues—the rising prices of chocolate milk, the construction of a new swing set and the planning of the Adler family carnival. But I was at a steep disadvantage. There were only two black kids...
...talk at the Atlantic Council this week, CIA director-general Michael Hayden said Osama bin Laden is alive. I'll take his word for it. But bin Laden's strange disappearance makes one wonder what exactly happened to him. The last relatively reliable bin Laden sighting was in late 2001. A video that he apparently appeared in last year shows him with a dyed beard. More than a few Pakistani intelligence operatives who knew bin Laden scoff at the idea he would ever dye his beard. They think the tape was manipulated from old footage, and that bin Laden...