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...universities would have a devastating effect on the educational landscape of this country. While schools with larger endowments might be able to weather such a change in policy, the inevitable disappearance of smaller schools would result in more limited access to higher education in the United States. The harm that would be caused by the removal of the tax-exemption status of American universities is much greater than the benefit would be. That said, American universities need to do the good work that justifies their exemption from taxation. All schools should be required by the U.S. government to spend...
...afraid of the foreigners. If they try to harm you, I will stand in front of them.' HAMID KARZAI, Afghan President, saying he would personally protect Taliban and other militant leaders from U.S. and NATO troops if they agreed to participate in peace talks...
...process whether a drug will pan out. Down the pipeline, diagnostics identify which patients most benefit from a therapy, giving clinical trials tailored to that subset a better chance of succeeding. Moreover, any patient for whom the drug wouldn't work or whom the drug could harm can be excluded...
...typically dismantled and recycled or turned into museums). It took nearly $20 million to ready the ship for safe sinking in accordance with standards set forth by the Environmental Protection Agency, which concluded that the 700 lb. of toxic PCBs aboard the Oriskany had been secured and would not harm wildlife. But the science regarding the safety of artificial reefing is still being developed. Chris Dorsett, vice president of fishery conservation and management at the Ocean Conservancy, says that toxins can still leach from boats underwater and that these artificial reefs can "increase catchability of species," leading to even more...
...voted no. This is a remarkable event, the culmination of a historic sense of betrayal that Americans have long felt for their representatives in Washington. The nation's credit crisis on Monday exposed a much deeper and more fundamental problem: a crisis of political credibility that now threatens to harm our nation further, should the markets freeze up and more companies begin to fail, as many experts predict...