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...gender. Animal and human studies have linked these substances to a broad swath of health problems, inlcuding prostate and breast cancer, and altered genital development. "Virtually all of us are regularly exposed to low levels of phthalates and BPA," says Shanna Swan, a University of Rochester epidemiologist and an expert on endocrine disruptors. "The risks from these products have not been firmly established. But there are some measures we can take, until the use of these chemicals in everyday materials and products is more aggressively restricted...
...absolutely massive attention Islamist terrorism has gotten since September 11 has created a lucrative field for real and bogus analysts, experts, commentators - and even repented extremists," says one French counter-terrorism expert, who says his own inquiry among colleagues has yet to find anyone confirming Nasiri's alleged work for the French. "It's ironic that in this rush to cash in on terrorism, the charlatans usually scream louder than people with valuable information. Is that Nasiri's case - is he lying? I don't know. Am I skeptical? Absolutely. Will we ever find out if he's legitimate...
...best effort to test Nasiri's claims have come through partial corroboration of certain aspects by the BBC. Nasiri got further backing by former CIA senior intelligence officer and al-Qaeda expert Michael Scheuer, who said details in the book rang true to what intelligence officials knew about training in Afghan camps and the operations of some underground cells - and vouched for certain information he'd seen earlier in classified form. Doubters retort that much information and even video of training camps has been made public over the years, along with vast reporting on extremist activity and thinking. Using...
...Kaneb Professor of National Security and Military Affairs Stephen P. Rosen ’74, Harvard University Police Department Sergeant Kevin P. Bryant, and Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology David R. Liu ’94. “I was invited because I’m an expert on eating,” said Liu, who teaches Life Sciences 1a, “An Integrated Introduction to the Life Sciences: Chemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology.” “We mostly chose the judges because of their popularity among students,” said Chen...
Former Kennedy School of Government professor and human rights expert, Michael G. Ignatieff, lost his bid for the leadership of Canada’s Liberal Party in a surprise upset on Saturday. Stéphane Dion, a former professor at the University of Montreal, took the party leadership with 54.7 percent of the delegates’ votes, effectively ending Ignatieff’s chances of becoming prime minister if the Liberal Party takes back Parliament in the next election. Ignatieff—a prominent public intellectual who earned a PhD in history from Harvard in 1976—left...