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For Chavez, the U.S. is hardly qualified to raise concerns over democracy in his country. After all, Washington's credentials in Latin America include a long history of actively supporting brutal dictators and proxy wars and Chavez charges that it supported an unsuccessful coup against him in 2002. But as...
Welcome to the exploding new field of neuroethics, the study of the ethical and philosophical dilemmas provoked by advances in brain science. It's only since a seminal conference in 2002 that the field has even existed; shortly thereafter, Penn and Stanford founded the first academic centers for neuroethics in...
Ever since the British founded the city in 1841, its harbor has made Hong Kong a major stop on trade routes, its dockside warehouses stuffed with silks and other valuable wares of Asia. Hong Kong prospered as China's entrepôt, and traders like Li & Fung had tight links to...
Hong Kong's trading companies have moved beyond consumer goods. Noble Group, founded in 1987 in Hong Kong by a former steel trader named Richard Elman, sources commodities ranging from soybeans to petrochemicals to aluminum. A Chinese steel mill searching for a reliable supply of iron ore can hire Noble...
DIED. Bradford Washburn, 96, climber, cartographer and aerial photographer who in 1951 founded the all encompassing Museum of Science in Boston; in Lexington, Mass. Labeled "a roving genius of mind and mountains" by outdoor photographer Ansel Adams, Washburn mapped the Grand Canyon in the 1970s, using prisms and lasers to...