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...Washington A Delicate Step Forward for Stem-Cell Research In an effort to balance ethics and scientific advancement, the Obama Administration announced new guidelines for embryonic stem cells that could dramatically expand taxpayer-funded research. The rules, released on July 6 by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), allow federal spending to study existing stem-cell lines, provided the embryos were freely donated and meet other ethical requirements. Stem cells derived from human embryos can grow into a wide range of organs and tissues; scientists believe they hold great promise in curing diseases, though critics believe embryo destruction is morally...
...services, capacity, and commitment" to the Fung Library's distinctive collections. And Wilt L. Idema, chair of the department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, expressed concerns about the effect of budget pressures on HCL's ability to provide services, support research, purchase increasingly expensive academic materials, and expand and maintain collections. "A library is not a dead thing," Idema said. "A library has to continuously grow. If it does not have last five years of scholarship, what do you have? You have a museum." But Brainard said that "HCL cares very much about the needs of faculty and students...
...Nevertheless, as of Thursday afternoon, over 450 individuals had signed the online petition, including students, residents, faculty, and physicians from HMS and its affiliated hospitals. The petition calls for the School's administration to present a detailed plan of action for expanding institutional support despite the budget cut, expand loan forgiveness initiatives that financially enable students to pursue primary care specialties, support efforts to strengthen primary care in a reformed national health care system, and solicit and implement proposals from the HMS community to improve primary care education...
...damage will be limited to UBS. "We don't foresee any negative impact on the Swiss banking industry as a whole," says Martin Naville, CEO of the Zurich-based Swiss-American Chamber of Commerce, an organization that helps Swiss companies in the U.S. and U.S. companies in Switzerland expand their businesses. "It's the cleanest system in the world, with strict laws on money laundering, terrorist finances, corruption and other illicit activities." (Read "The Scandal of Secret Swiss Bank Accounts...
This fall the company will expand its lineup to include precision underpants. Yes, go ahead and reread that. Chung said the underpants will feature similar compression technology, which sounds kind of painful. But fear not, she assured me. They are designed to keep men comfortable and keep their precision parts cooler. "That area of a man is meant to be 1º colder than the rest of the body to optimize fertility," she said. Fertility is not my problem, I said. "It'll also give you a perkier rear end," she said. I agreed to test a sample in September...