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...ruling by the Canadian Federal Court of Appeal reversed the decisions of Canada's patent commissioner and a lower court, requiring the commissioner to apply the same criteria to living and inanimate inventions. The decision was confined to interpretation of the patent code and did not address broader ethical objections some raised to the patenting of life forms...
...This means you may find some occasional diplomatic motorcade stationed outside your front door. Unfortunately, it also means that VIP guests see your rooms when Harvard decides to show them a typical student lifestyle. Mass. Hall residents are rumored to be hand-picked by some mysterious criteria that somehow qualify them as model Harvardians...
Those who support the U.S. having permanent normal trade relations with China are delusional, shortsighted and naive. The agreement may cut Chinese tariffs and serve to open up new markets for American manufacturers and service providers, but inward-looking China will not turn on a dime to meet U.S. criteria for human rights. China will promise the moon but deliver only manufactured products and immigrants to its trading partners. In the short term, North American jobs will be lost when U.S. manufacturers move plants to China, where labor is cheap. The U.S. trade deficit with China will escalate to frightening...
...criteria for the first permanent dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study were formidable. President Neil L. Rudenstine was looking for a middle-aged female academic with solid professional credentials, a commitment to gender issues, leadership ability and administrative talent, who was willing to pull up stakes, move to Cambridge and sort through the host of pressing decisions awaiting a new dean...
...committee--chaired by Lewis--will award the Paul Revere Frothingham Prize today to a graduating senior. One of the criteria for the prize is that the recipient embodies the quality of "manliness...