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...Among those rooting for Chen was Gao Zhisheng, a feisty lawyer who has represented underground Christians and members of the banned Falun Gong sect. Gao wore a "Free Chen Guangcheng" T shirt and spoke openly of his contempt for what he called "the gangster Communist Party" (even though he's a member). This fall, he was arrested on charges of inciting subversion. Arrests like these have sparked debate among lawyers about tactics. Teng Biao, a lecturer at the China University of Political Science and Law, says Gao's willingness to push the envelope has widened the space "for other more...
Universities might not be doing enough to guard “sensitive information” in their research labs, “potentially putting at risk U.S. national security interests,” according to a federal audit released this week. The audit, from the Government Accountability Office (GAO), suggests that schools receiving Defense Department funding aren’t doing enough to guard their gadgets from foreign countries and terrorists. Though it wasn’t mentioned by name in the report, Harvard received $21.9 million in Defense Department research funding in the 2005 fiscal year, the most recent...
There is persuasive evidence that the supply chain is easily infiltrated. A September report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) said flatly, "U.S. control systems cannot help deter illicit rough diamonds from entering the legitimate trade." Another disturbing finding: the U.S. reported exporting more diamonds than it received in 2003-- a remarkable trade imbalance for a nation without a single working mine. The GAO said, with bureaucratic dryness, that such figures were "not plausible...
...Kimberley Process has two loopholes that can't be easily plugged. The first, as the GAO's findings indicate, is that it would be difficult to design a better tool for money laundering, arms dealing and cross-border smuggling than a diamond--all that liquidity in such a tiny space. Diamonds can be bought with dirty money, moved across African borders with relative ease, given false paperwork and then sent onward to the trading centers of Europe...
...dangerous is direct-to-consumer nutrigenetics? It depends. Two of the firms probed by the GAO coupled their reports with a pitch for what they claimed were supplements designed to address the deficiencies in the DNA profiles of their customers. The supplements, one of which would have cost $1,880 a year, were not substantially different from those available for $35 a year at any drug store. It's not just about money, but safety too. As the GAO points out, not all supplements are harmless to all people...