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...Jury Team is opening its doors to almost anyone: "If a few oddballs or eccentrics run, I don't mind it," Bell says. "It's time for a people's insurrection." But organizers still intend to weed out extremists: during registration, candidates must click a box confirming that they won't discriminate on the basis of gender, race, religion or sexual orientation, and that they will behave honestly and selflessly. (See TIME's Pictures of the Week...
...equivalent of about $80,000, and was "sure she could sell it by now at a profit, and buy a bigger place." Ask her if that plan still holds, and she just laughs. "I have no idea now what my place is worth now - and I don't intend to find out, because I'm not going to sell into this market." China may not confront the disastrous effect that huge numbers of foreclosures have had on real estate prices in the U.S., but its own problems are bad enough - and they're not getting better anytime soon...
...Education & Labor - sent a letter to President Obama on Wednesday announcing their intention to work together to draft legislation. The cooperation among committees in both chambers is a break from the 1994 attempt at health-care reform, when committee infighting helped sink that effort. Both chambers have said they intend to see legislation reach the floor before the August recess, though many admit the tougher part will come when the differences between the two versions must be reconciled. "The House bill will be the high-water mark of what we'd like to do with the system," says a Democratic...
...separate animal cages and other equipment—too high a price tag for the private donors who would have had to fund it. Weir said he and his colleagues decided to hold off on the project in the hope that Obama would soon lift federal restrictions. They now intend to seek federal support for the project, he said. Kevin Casey, the University’s chief lobbyist, said that Harvard has long called for such a decision, both individually and in concert with the Coalition for the Advancement of Medical Research, a national bipartisan research advocacy group...
...languages and literatures will require six—down from eight in the current language-focused tracks. The department has gradually been expanding its focus beyond language to increase its emphasis on other fields, like archaeology, history, and philosophy, Schiefsky said.“We don’t intend to stop teaching Greek,” Schiefsky said, “but there are also interesting things you can say about Greek texts even if you don’t know the language. Classics is not something accessible only to those willing to learn Greek for six years...