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...plans. According to Faust’s statement, the Science Complex’s foundation will be completed and brought to ground level at a slower pace while planners conduct detailed cost analyses to determine whether to keep current plans, reconfigure the building to cut costs, or halt construction completely. Faust said the rest of Harvard’s Allston planning—which has been slated to occur over a 50-year time span—will also slow. She added that Harvard will “develop options for interim improvements to [its] existing properties?...
...economic free fall is causing budget difficulties in other states, but California faces the deepest crisis. With the budget talks stalled, Schwarzenegger sent layoff notices to 10,000 state workers and ordered a halt to the last 275 state-funded public-works projects still under construction. Call it shovel-ready in reverse...
...Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei. Together they have used the Bush Administration's opposition as an opportunity to crack down on reformists. Ahmadinejad initially greeted Obama's victory with a rare congratulatory letter, though his ardor then seemed to cool as he called on the U.S. to "halt your support to the uncultivated and rootless, forged, phony, killers-of-women-and-children Zionists, and allow the Palestinian nation to determine its own destiny." But after Obama's press conference, Ahmadinejad said Iran was ready for "talks based on mutual respect and in a fair atmosphere...
...away with a fundamental misunderstanding about the science of evolution. Once Darwin mailed his manuscript of On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life to his publisher, the science of evolution did not grind to a halt. That would be a bit like saying medicine peaked when Louis Pasteur demonstrated that germs cause diseases. (See a photo-essay on Darwin...
...Paulson's lesson is that there is always more money. That is true at least in a panic when the Congress and Administration have convinced themselves, perhaps appropriately, that pushing huge amounts of capital into the economy is the only way to halt the recession...