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...Renaissance literature expert, Reeves might be an improbable figure to lead a broad-based human rights advocacy movement. And in recent months, Reeves has found even more unlikely allies in his quest: the three members of Harvard’s Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (CCSR...
...suspected Taliban gunmen days earlier, and the bomb?a mixture of explosives and ball bearings?was more sophisticated than those used in previous suicide blasts. "This was a very professional effort and way beyond the capability that we have seen previously from the Taliban," says Nick Downie, a security expert who advises NGOs on safety conditions in Afghanistan. "It does look like an attack planned from abroad...
...house arrests. And he says other activists have been harassed or arrested in the country's Fergana, Kashkadaryinsk and Djizak regions. Karimov's government has repeatedly rejected calls for an independent inquiry, despite mounting international pressure. "Karimov is digging his own grave," says Oleg Panfilov, a Central Asia expert in Moscow. "The tragedy is he's dragging his entire country along...
Being the founder of the Internet's largest encyclopedia means Jimmy Wales gets a lot of bizarre e-mail. There are the correspondents who assume he wrote Wikipedia himself and is therefore an expert on everything-like the guy who found vials of mercury in his late grandfather's attic and wanted Wales, a former options trader, to tell him what to do with them. There are kooks who claim to have found, say, a 9,000-year-old, 15-ft.-tall human skeleton and wonder whether Wales would be interested. But the e-mails that make him laugh...
...every expert who is worried that the last thing fat people need is one more excuse not to get thin, there are hints that the problem is in fact more nuanced than that. One is a study that comes from the nonprofit Cooper Institute in Dallas. Since the 1970s doctors there have been amassing a database of the more than 80,000 patients who have passed through their doors to be weighed, measured, pinched, blood-tested and to run on treadmills while their vital signs are monitored. Drawing on that rich lode of data, the institute concluded that overweight...