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...lack of a federal policy on human embryonic-stem-cell research--beyond the Bush Administration's restrictions on funding--has left plenty of room for the states to seize the scientific initiative. But when they did--starting in 2002, when California and New Jersey became the first to extend explicit legal protection to such research--the result was a patchwork of laws that has paralyzed some entrepreneurs and galvanized others...
...comment period, during which members of the Harvard community and the public may comment on the task forces’ recommendations, will extend through June...
...everything old is new again? In Hollywood, it always has been. In the dream factory's prime, when the major companies cranked out 40 to 50 movies a year and there were no TV or video markets to extend a movie's shelf life, studios briskly recycled many of their properties. RKO filmed Raymond Chandler's novel Farewell, My Lovely as an episode of the low-budget Falcon series in 1942 and then remade it as an A picture (Murder, My Sweet) two years later. In predigital days, directors like Cecil B. DeMille, Leo McCarey and Alfred Hitchcock didn...
...says she “started the Pluralism Project in order to extend [her] work and research on contemporary forms of religion into the United States, rather than just in India for Hinduism and Islam.” Recently, her studies have included understanding the lives and cultures of “the second generation of the post-1965 immigration, who came to college at Harvard [in the early 1990s...
...international community’s response has been depressingly predictable. One attempted remedy was the deployment of 2,200 African Union (AU) troops to monitor a nonexistent cease-fire. But the troops are under-trained, under-funded, and under-supplied. The AU’s mandate does not even extend to civilian protection; these troops cannot stop killings and are useless. And since the embarrassing quagmire of Somalia in 1993 and the killing of Belgian United Nations peacekeepers in Rwanda in 1994, there seems to be no political will to send American or European troops to fight another African...