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Only a dozen or so such lines have proved useful, which most American scientists consider far too few to work with. They can still tap a much more limited pool of private funding, but a bill introduced in the Senate last year would have hamstrung them further by banning human cloning even for therapeutic purposes. If that law had passed and the Koreans had done their work in the U.S., said Donald Kennedy, editor in chief of Science and a participant in last week's press conference, "they would have been jailed...
...common. This alone would not retard missions work. Most evangelists accept it as a cost of sharing faith. What did slow their efforts was a more prosaic measure: the gradual elimination by most Muslim countries of professional "religious worker" visas. Established organizations built around salaried missionary lifers found themselves hamstrung...
Stimulating discussions of source material should be at the heart of a good humanities education. As the system is currently configured, however, TFs are hamstrung by the need to evaluate students and cannot provide the sort of environment where such discussions can routinely take place. Hiring the majority of TFs earlier may make substantive improvements to the quality of instruction in the sciences. But it will not significantly change substandard humanities sections. Only bold measures can tackle that. Implementing Kirby’s vision of preregistration would have been a nightmare. But that doesn’t mean that...
...types are plenty worried. Beset by feeble growth and preoccupied with the possibility of war with Iraq, the euro zone's major economies are stuck in an economic rut - one from which, at least in the short term, they look unlikely to escape. Business investment has declined. Governments are hamstrung by budget deficit restrictions imposed by E.U. authorities. And crucially, the resilience of Europe's consumers - whose spending accounts for 58% of GDP in the region - is coming under increasing pressure, even in shopping stalwarts like the U.K. "Well, things could be worse," says Robert Prior-Wandesforde, a European economist...
...investment portfolios. In the short run, they don't look like very good investments. This is one of the barriers. Even big companies, which may want to do something, still face a five- or seven-year payoff. Up front, it is a huge capital outlay. They feel hamstrung because of the shareholders and Wall Street...