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...home to some of the biggest biotech groups in the world. GSK Biologicals, for instance, which has headquarters just 15 miles outside Brussels, supplies about a quarter of all vaccines used throughout the world. "Europe's opposition to GMOs is a backlash against science," says Willy De Greef, secretary general for Europabio, the European biotech lobby. "We have a lot of catching up to do. While the U.S., Brazil, India and China have forged ahead in genetic engineering, we have lost a generation of good scientists." (See TIME's interview with José Manuel Barroso...
...Undergraduate Council’s Election Reform Task Force presented a comprehensive report endorsing 11 specific recommendations at last night’s general meeting to address weaknesses revealed by November’s highly controversial elections...
...committed sexual abuse and whether the order's current leadership was aware of Maciel's behavior and covered it up via payoffs to mistresses and abuse victims. Fair said the Legion had no comment in that regard. But Maciel victims like Vaca say that Legion bosses such as its general director, the Rev. Alvaro Corcuera, and Maciel's private secretary, the Rev. John Devlin, should step forward with what they know...
...increase as normal for a large nation climbing out of decades of poverty. "Although China now has a growing military demand, it has always upheld the principle of peaceful development. The double-digit increases in the past should be interpreted as compensational growth," says Zhao Zongjiu, deputy secretary-in-general at Shanghai Institute for International Strategic Studies, a government-backed think tank. "I predict that, given the current policy environment, the growth rate of military expenses will remain roughly on the same level as China's GDP growth in the next few years." (See pictures of China's infrastructure boom...
...Protestants, in part because a scandal involving Robinson's wife Iris (who obtained $80,000 from property developers to help her 19-year-old lover establish a café business) has rocked the bigger party's Evangelical base. Many expect the TUV to do well in the upcoming British general election. "The DUP is very worried," says Rick Wilford, a professor of politics at Queens University, Belfast. "There's a lot of disgruntlement out there, and if [the TUV] does reasonably well, the momentum will be behind [it]." (Read "Mrs. Robinson: Northern Ireland's Own Sex Scandal...