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...Edythe L. Broad last week. The gift marked the fourth anniversary of the institute. The gift brings the total investment by the Broads to $600 million, dwarfing any donation given to either university. The new gift will enable the institute, founded soon after the completion of the Human Genome Project, to create its own endowment and establish itself as a permanent, standalone biomedical research organization. The funds will be invested with the goal of growing the $400 million into a $1 billion endowment, which may require more gifts from other donors, Eli Broad said at a press conference following...
Sarah Palin thinks she is a better American than you because she comes from a small town, and a superior human being because she isn't a journalist and has never lived in Washington and likes to watch her kids play hockey. Although Palin praised John McCain in her acceptance speech as a man who puts the good of his country ahead of partisan politics, McCain pretty much proved the opposite with his selection of a running mate whose main asset is her ability to reignite the culture wars. So maybe Governor Palin does represent everything that is good...
...over time, we should have a better idea of just how much warming might intensify storms, and how that process works. But that's a secondary issue. Whether or not warming will create more super storms, we know that hurricanes will happen, and we know that they will strike human populations. The difference, as my colleague Amanda Ripley recently pointed out is whether or not we're prepared for them. As population numbers and property development grow in vulnerable areas like the Gulf Coast, natural disasters will get worse even without the effect of warming. Think of the damage that...
...city has grown, human settlement has encroached into these once distant animal habitats, spooking their longtime residents. The animals are now coming out of the forest and lagoons looking for food, according to Amorim's colleague Lieutenant Raquel Jardim. And when they do, each species poses its own particular problem...
...enter the community of nations, but until recently had been undermined by the older elements of the regime left over from his father's days," says one French official involved France's evolving relationship with Damascus. "He's not perfect, and there are still real problems with human rights and the treatment of political prisoners in Syria. Still, there are enough signs of change and a willingness to work together that we can't let that kind of opportunity pass...