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...professor at the Harvard Medical School (HMS) has been awarded a $500,000 five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to conduct cell biology research that may have significant repercussions on future treatments of neural diseases like Parkinson’s and Huntington?...
Traditionally, the U.N. Secretary-General position rotates every 10 years by region. In January 2002 Africa was due to relinquish the Secretary-General’s post, but Annan—originally from Ghana—was selected for a second five-year term in 2001, partly because Asia could not agree on a candidate...
...that the message is finally sinking in, says Compton of TRAFFIC. "There's more political will out there to do something about this issue than there ever has been before," he says, noting that the 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations agreed in May to a five-year plan to combat threats to the region's biodiversity. "Now it remains to be seen if they'll commit the resources to back that up, put their money where their mouths are." Last week, amid an outbreak of avian flu in Indonesia that has sickened 20 and killed...
...Sherwood, who is fighting a civil suit filed by a woman less than half his age with whom he says he had a five-year affair. No criminal charges were filed against Sherwood after his mistress, who is now 29, called 911 and told police Sherwood had tried to choke her during a backrub. But she has sued the four-term Republican from Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania for $5.5 million, saying he repeatedly struck her, violently yanked her hair and tried to strangle her, promising after each incident never to do it again and begging her not to leave him. Sherwood...
TIME How big do you want to be? K.K. We just laid out a new five-year plan. We see the opportunity for double-digit growth in our four key businesses: retail banking, home lending, multifamily lending and nonprime residential lending...