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...shortage centers on rhesus macaque monkeys, which are used in more than half of primate research projects across the nation, according to Ronald C. Desrosiers, who directs of the New England Primate Research Center (NEPRC), which is part of HMS. Researchers favor rhesus monkeys for disease treatments tests because of their biological similarity to humans...
...known facilities are in hardened installations buried deep inside the mountains, while North Korea's clandestine nuclear program suggests it may have facilities of which the U.S. is currently unaware. Pinpoint strikes require pinpoint intelligence, and on North Korea the intelligence tends to be murky. Even Administration hawks who favor regime change in North Korea tend to emphasize sanctions and blockades, rather than military assault. But there's little support for regime change even by the tactics of slow strangulation among the key regional players - South Korea, Japan and China - who fear that North Korea wold retaliate by starting...
...forces working in Dean's favor is the disarray and disenchantment within the Democratic Party. If he's angry, well, so are many committed rank-and-file Democrats, especially on the defining question of war with Iraq, on which all the other leading contenders voted with Bush. An insurgent has more room in a field as large as this one, in which no true front runner has yet emerged to marshal the party's institutional forces. Dean's outsider appeal has made all the other first-tier contenders blend into button-down sameness. Campaign manager Joe Trippi, 47, a veteran...
...about as mainstream an endorsement as you can get. Canada just legalized gay marriage, and the U.S. Supreme Court just struck down sodomy laws across the land, legitimizing the fact that homosexual is something you are, not something you do. Polls in Massachusetts and New Jersey show majorities in favor of equal marriage rights...
...Ordinance Committee, the arm of the city council that considers zoning, held a public hearing last week in which residents spoke overwhelmingly in favor of the Carlson petition...