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...Eric Lander and Harold Varmus are inspired appointments,” University Provost and former National Institute of Mental Health director Steven E. Hyman said in an e-mail. “They will work well with John Holdren to restore the highest scientific values to the nation’s research and technology enterprise...
...went to Ramon Franco, the brother of Francisco Franco, who would later become Spain's long-reigning dictator. The game has had its share of critics as well: Spanish households spend about 2% of their budget on lottery purchases and other forms of gambling, one of the highest rates in Europe...
...when they won the bulk of the vote in their respective constituencies. The politics of ethnocentrism props up the parties that really don't have anything else to offer the populace. The economy has been in deep trouble even before the international financial crisis. Unemployment and corruption are among highest in the region. Basic goods suffer from inflation. According to a recent study, about 70% of Bosnians below the age of 30 have abandoned hope for a better future at home, and would rather emigrate to the West...
Catholicism is expanding across much of the developing world, with the highest growth rate in Africa, now a source of ever more priests sent out to work in European and North American countries facing clergy shortage. Latin American Catholics, who had high hopes back in 2005 that one of their Cardinals would fill John Paul II's papal slippers, are battling to hold onto their faithful, who have been moving to evangelical Protestant churches in droves over the past two decades. The current German Pope has focused much of his attention on efforts to reinvigorate traditional Catholicism in Europe...
...flooring and even conventional paint, that can leach poisonous substances. What's more, the chemicals used to clean hospitals - chlorine, laundry detergents and softeners, ammonia - contain toxic ingredients and can cause respiratory disease. In fact, studies suggest that nurses, who spend long hours at the hospital, have among the highest rates of environmentally induced asthma of any profession...