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For a serial kidnapper, Philip Yeo looks harmless enough. But to hear some people tell it, he's a dangerous man. Over the past six years, Yeo has been roaming the world, trailing talented scientists in Washington; San Diego; Palo Alto, Calif.; Edinburgh and elsewhere, and spiriting them back to...
A group of seven asymmetrical buildings with sci-fi names like Nanos and Proteos, all connected by transparent sky bridges, Biopolis is meant to be a self-enclosed science city, housing government research institutes, biotech start-ups and global drug companies. At the ground level, researchers from some 50 countries...
Sources: Government Accountability Office (3); House of Representatives (3); Institute of Medicine (2); Casper Star-Tribune (2)
Another worry is that a heavy focus on detection technology for the entire region may be draining resources from the more critical problems of basic preparedness in those areas most threatened by tsunamis. "In western Sumatra, there is no emergency preparation beyond what would save 1% of the people here...
The report also recommended that Harvard’s planned Allston campus contain “a critical mass of collaborative science,” which would include the School of Public Health, the Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and other biology and computing departments.