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...Sunday political talk shows. That may be some kind of a record, since Rice rarely misses an opportunity to call for isolating Tehran until it abandons its uranium-enrichment activities and its support for radical groups in the Middle East. But it would be hard for Rice to demand the isolation of Iran when, in a dramatic course correction approved by President Bush, the Secretary of State plans to sit across a table with her Iranian counterpart, Manoucher Mottaki, at a conclave of Middle Eastern foreign ministers focused on stabilizing Iraq...
...determine just how effective TX Active is over the long term. So-called catalytic agents can lose their power over time. But Italcementi is already marketing it in the U.S. and Europe.The biggest potential, however, could be in rapidly growing countries like India and China. With annual cement demand expected to exceed 1 billion tons in China alone by 2008, building materials will have an enormous effect on changing urban environments. "We want to show that cement can contribute to the reduction of pollution," says Borgarello. "We can deal with problems that every city faces." As he said--there...
...government’s demand for greater college accountability ignores the purpose of accreditation: to ensure that institutions of higher learning meet a minimal standard, not to impose normative standards on what or how much students should learn. Furthermore, the government should not be in the business of creating a de facto ranking system for institutions of higher education...
...veteran actor, is ready to direct his first full-length play, Edward Albee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” which is opening at the Loeb Ex this weekend. As if that wasn’t demanding enough, Wilner, a philosophy concentrator, also chose to write a senior thesis. "In a way, it was really useful to do both at once. It got a little hectic juggling rehearsal and writing at one point, but I feel both writing a thesis and directing a play have similar challenges...
...With White House support in hand, GINA appears to set to become law. But there are several other challenges for society when individuals know their own DNA. Will lenders demand individuals’ genetic information and use it to discriminate against them? Will health care premiums rise when healthy-genomed individuals decided to forego insurance, and vice versa? And will concerns about the security and privacy of their genetic information dissuade many from self-sequencing in the first place...