Word: creationism
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...writes about foreign affairs. Wirjawan, the head of the Indonesian investment board, jokes that, "If I want to get Americans going, all I have to say is China's interested in a deal and they don't worry about the sanctity of contracts or other legal niceties." The creation of an Asian trade alliance could place American big business at a disadvantage. Though U.S. companies have historically invested far more in ASEAN than China, the pace of investment has slowed in recent years as the U.S. is squeezed by Asian competition. (See pictures of Obama's diplomacy...
...rights movement and to tone down global-warming arguments. But the nation's battle over textbooks stretches back almost half a century earlier. In 1925, Tennessee's Butler Act (which was repealed in 1967) made it illegal to teach "any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible." The Scopes "monkey trial" famously followed. In 1974, a clash erupted in Kanawha County, West Virginia, over the controversial writings of such authors as George Orwell, Arthur Miller and Allen Ginsberg. Opposition was so heated that some schools were firebombed with dynamite and Molotov...
With the recent creation of a separate office for research strategy, the Harvard School of Public Health was well equipped to handle the January revisions to the National Institutes of Health grant application process...
...innovations” such as clever securitization schemes and subprime mortgages that harm lower-income Americans and pension funds while risking the stability of the economy as a whole. The Senate bill currently has a CFPA under the purview of the Federal Reserve Bank, however the creation of an independent agency would give it greater stature and thus the power and influence to adequately...
...With the creation of limited liability companies, the research centers—which had been funded primarily through grants from the National Institutes of Health—will gain access to grants from European entities as well, says Jorge I. Dominguez, the University’s vice provost for international affairs...