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...protection, human rights, and many other issues. However, the resurgence of Kremlin authoritarianism has lead to the suppression of NGOs—and all forms of independent civil society—which risks radicalizing marginalized elements of Russian society.Despite their useful social work, NGOs are seen by the Russian government as a challenge to its power. The government’s attempts to suppress independent actors in Russia have multiplied dramatically over the last few years. Numerous arbitrary closings of NGOs have been complemented by legislation—allegedly against terrorism—that actually suppresses NGOs. These newly adopted...
Alberto F. Alesina, who is chair of Harvard’s economics department and Ropes professor of political economy, said Italy’s new electoral system makes it more difficult for a party that wins by a small majority to govern because the system is less “winner-take-all” and more “proportional...
...left hopes will clinch him the Prime Minister?s job, even as Berlusconi?s allies scurried to demand a recount in a race that looks to have been decided by some 20,000 votes in an election that saw nearly 40 million Italians go to the polls. "We can govern even with a tiny majority," a center-left official told TIME. "It was a photo finish, but in mass media terms, we caught them way off guard...
Because characteristics like limb development are governed by powerful families of genes known as Hox genes, the fishapod's curious mix of features intrigues developmental biologists as much as it does paleontologists. Recent experiments on mice by University of Geneva geneticist Denis Duboule and his colleagues, for example, show that Hox genes control limb development in two stages. "Even though the same genes are involved," says Duboule, "separate processes govern the development of arms and legs and the development of hands and feet...
...Harvard shows achieve. Does illness exist before doctors say it does? (This is particularly appropriate for a French play, given that a similar controversy surrounded Pasteur’s “discovery” of the microbe in the nineteenth century.) To what extent do we let medicine govern our bodies more than is necessary? And it’s difficult to avoid allusions to Hitler in the stiffly crisp and completely insane figure of Dr. Knock and the mechanistic modernization he envisions in his “medicine,” exposing the issue of whether modern medicine...