Word: environmental
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The 1991 report on women in the sciences concluded that many young scientists found family and academic careers mutually exclusive goals, especially in an intense environment like Harvard.
...Case Against the WTO Critics of the WTO range from the fringe to the mainstream, raising concerns about democracy, labor rights and the environment. They reject the idea of having a non-elected body with the power to overrule democratically elected governments on issues of environmental protection and labor rights. For example, environmentally motivated U.S. restrictions on importing shrimp caught with nets that endanger sea turtles have been overruled by the WTO, while laws against dumping low-cost steel in the U.S. may also be eliminated by the international body. Some of the more radical environmentalist groups, as well...
...Environmental and health protections Environmentalists and public advocacy groups strongly reject the WTO's right to overrule measures intended to protect the environment or public health, arguing that the organization puts the narrow interests of business over those of society in general. But countries disadvantaged by such measures often charge that they're invoked as a fig leaf for old-fashioned protectionism. For example, Washington has dismissed European health concerns over the import of hormone treated beef as an attempt to protect less competitive European farmers...
We need to know because we need to know: A new book hypothesizing that AIDS originated in a polio vaccine may reflect our discomfort with being unable to control our environment more than it provides any scientific breakthrough. British journalist Michael Hooper's "The River" amasses a wealth of circumstantial...
Serious critics of the World Trade Organization may be facing a problem familiar to that of moderate Republicans - making their voices heard above the extremist din in their own tent. President Clinton arrived in a Seattle under siege Wednesday, after police Tuesday imposed a curfew to curb the protests that...