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Given the size and often unwieldy nature of the Medical School, Faust said in the interview Wednesday that, though she did not insist on an insider, she is “very happy to have a person with deep and intimate knowledge of the Medical School...
...officials acknowledge their roots in Islamist parties. But they insist that they have changed, and that they respect Ataturk's separation of mosque and state. Secularist charges of creeping fundamentalism are just a way to scare voters, they say. "It's a witch hunt," says Ali Kemal Eksioglu, 30, an AKP youth leader who has been working to get out the vote in Kadikoy, Istanbul's largest, wealthiest and most traditionally secularist voting district. "I mean, it's 2007, and they are still asking, 'Why is that woman wearing a head scarf?' It's too much." As he sees...
...Thank you for your deliciously tasty coverage of world food trends. I can't help pointing out that there seems to be little point in healthful eating for those of us who insist on an early death by way of cigarettes or alcohol-or both. Ian McKenzie-Vincent, Nairobi...
...Russians claimed a great scientific discovery late last month. An expedition of 50 scientists that spent 45 days aboard the Rossia nuclear ice-breaker found that an underwater ridge (the Lomonosov ridge) directly links Russia's Arctic coast to the North Pole. This, they insist, surely guarantees Russia's rights over a vast Polar territory that also happens to contain some 10 billion tons of oil and natural gas deposits...
...Hurricane experts seem divided over Proenza's assessment of the forecasting vulnerabilities and the QuickScat issue. Some side with the Hurricane Center revolt, questioning the scientific rigor of his study. Others, like Bob Atlas, director of NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory in Miami, insist that Proenza's concerns "are very well founded. QuickScat is [one of the most] valuable forecasting [tools]." Atlas says he applauds Proenza's outspokenness, predicting it will "accelerate the effort to replace QuickScat with an even better scatterometer satellite...