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...their ideas about a deal. The ideas include the deployment of U.S. monitors and an international fund to rebuild Palestine. Even more significant, the U.S. is leaning toward endorsing plans that would require the handover of land currently occupied by Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip and would extend international recognition to an independent Palestinian state before a permanent peace is reached. "The U.S. thinks this is interesting and potentially useful," says a senior State Department official. If these elements come together, officials say, they would probably lead to an international peace conference--involving Israeli, Palestinian and other Arab...
...financial conflicts of interest can extend not only to the institutions but also to the researchers themselves. One of the reasons Jesse Gelsinger's death in the University of Pennsylvania's gene-therapy trial in 1999 seemed especially scandalous was that James Wilson, the principal investigator in the study, held a 30% equity stake in Genovo, which owned the rights to license the drug Wilson was studying; the university owned 3.2% of the company. When Targeted Genetics Corp. acquired Genovo, Wilson reportedly earned $13.5 million and Penn $1.4 million...
However, Hewlett encourages women to realize that their ability to balance family and career should extend beyond just finding a man with whom they can settle down. “Women should also be mindful of what careers they choose and what companies they decide to work for,” Hewlett said. “For example, doctors tend to do a better job balancing families than lawyers, and academics tend to have terrible luck balancing both. Academics have the highest rate of failure of any group. Entrepreneurs, however, tend to have incredible luck...
...Center for the Study of American Culture and Education. She chaired NYU’s humanities and social sciences department during that same period, a testament to her academic breadth. Such breadth is essential as the GSE looks toward more interdisciplinary work, and we hope that she will extend interdisciplinary initiatives to include undergraduates interested in education...
Harvard and Penn each scored in the eighth to extend the ball game even further, but Penn pounced on Harvard’s bullpen in the top of the ninth. Blagojevich homered to dead center off Wahlberg (1-3) to give Penn the lead. Wahlberg then walked outfielder Nate Moffie, who advanced to third when the pinch hitter, Matt Horn, hit a double into the gap. An intentional walk loaded the bases...