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...encourage female graduate students and junior professors in the sciences since 1991, when the FAS Standing Committee on Women—which she chaired—warned in a high-profile report that the rise in the number of women in senior faculty positions would grind to a halt unless Harvard made a concerted effort to attract and retain female scholars...
General Motors, Dell and Samsung--one of the leading producers of the phones--are among the companies that have prohibited employees from taking cam phones into sensitive research and production facilities, to prevent corporate espionage. Schools are banning them to halt cheating, since students have been nabbed shooting test questions and e-mailing them to others. Many courthouses ban the phones to prevent witness or juror intimidation. (At a superior court hearing in Los Angeles three months ago, a witness was photographed by a cam-phone user who threatened to post the photo on the Web.) Most gyms have...
...because dense populations of people and birds mingle at virtually every step of production, from chick to ph? pot. With the virus embedded in the local duck and chicken population, repeated human-bird contact means "it's inevitable you'll get human infection," says Webster. Vietnam is trying to halt such infections by modernizing its poultry industry, limiting human-bird contact, but that won't be easy. More than 80% of its poultry producers are small-scale farmers who raise a few dozen birds to eat or sell?and few keep their flocks in cages or enclosures. "Rural Vietnam...
...protest, people had been called to pray, fast, dress in black (one woman wore nothing but red-white-and-blue underpants), turn their backs, skip work, boycott gas, spend "Not One Damn Dime" to bring the economy to a halt for a day of lament. There were flags burned and snowballs thrown, much jostling, some pepper spray. The satirical Billionaires for Bush auctioned off Social Security and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge before moving on to their Re-Coronation Ball (its code: "Dress to oppress"). The spirit of the First Amendment floated down Pennsylvania Avenue, between protesters chanting "Racist, sexist...
...added that he hadn't yet seen any attempt by the new Palestinian chief to rein in the terrorist groups. Sharon's bottom line for a return to peace talks is for Abbas to confront the Islamists of Hamas and the gunmen of the Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and halt the rocket and mortar attacks on Israeli towns near the Gaza Strip. The persistence of such attacks could jeopardize Sharon's plans to evacuate all Israeli settlers from Gaza as early as this summer, which is viewed by U.S. officials as a critical first step toward peace. "Abbas doesn't have...