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...thing to covet the resources that may now be accessible in the Arctic. It's another to establish a legal claim to them that others will recognize. Under the provisions of the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), a country has exclusive economic rights to the sea's resources within 200 nautical miles (230 miles, 370 km) of its coast. The treaty provides for extending that limit up to 350 nautical miles if a country can prove that its continental shelf extends from the coastline beyond the current limit. That explains the rush by Russia, Denmark...
Climbing up the national charts, the No. 7-ranked Harvard men’s soccer team is well on its way to putting Crimson soccer permanently on the map. Throughout the past year Harvard has been showered with accolades, both individual and team-wide. Sophomore Andre Akpan, who established himself as a national contender for the FIFA U-20 team with a hat trick in the CONCACAF qualifying tournament against Haiti last winter, returned to the FIFA scene once again this summer. Akpan made the final cut for the U-20 World Cup team, and helped supply the pressure that...
...metabolizing sugar in their mitochondria, cancer cells appeared to fuel themselves exclusively through glycolysis, a less-efficient means of creating energy through the fermentation of sugar in the cytoplasm. Warburg believed that this metabolic switch was the primary cause of cancer, a theory that he strove, unsuccessfully, to establish until his death...
Massachusetts state representative Michael J. Moran unveiled a surprise two-page list of demands on Monday that he says Harvard should submit to before Boston approves University construction in Allston. Moran’s declaration calls for Harvard to establish and partially fund a K-12 school in the neighborhood by September 2009 and create a construction mitigation program, among other things. Moran said he hopes that the members of the Harvard Allston Task Force, a group of Allston residents appointed by the city to review Harvard’s plans, will recommend that the Boston Redevelopment Authority...
...players, many of them suffering from disabilities for which they are demanding benefits, the NFL is also addressing the worrying rise in concussions. For the first time, all players were required to take neuropsychological tests by the start of the 2007 season. Doctors can then use these results to establish a baseline of cognitive abilities, memory and motor skills against which they can compare scores after a head injury. The league also added a concussion hotline that players can anonymously call if coaches are forcing them to play against medical advice. Such measures won't prevent catastrophic injuries...