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CONTEXT Ian Paisley and Gerry Adams, leaders of Northern Ireland's most hard-line Protestant and Roman Catholic parties, sat side by side for the first time ever and agreed to forge a joint platform for government...
...each gene, rather than just one or two at a time. “WGA permits us to examine 500,000 SNPs [genetic variations] across the entire genome in a single test,” said Todd Lencz, the first author of the study. The discovery was a joint initiative between the Medical School and the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research. Lencz, a Feinstein researcher, credited the Harvard team with using the new technology to collect the data. “Harvard has been at the cutting edge of the application of this WGA technology, and had primary responsibility over...
...Mugabe's own ruling zanu-PF party has begun to split as potential successors become impatient for power. After years of playing off one faction against another, there is now no credible successor whom Mugabe can trust to allow him to retire in peace. He rules now through the Joint Operation Command made up of senior army, police and intelligence officers...
...more important question remains: Who gets to make a decision about whether mosquitoes should be released? It should not be the decision of the just the particular scientist; it should be a joint decision. Mosquitoes will cross national borders, so decisions should include a wide range of participants. We will need an international panel of scientists, policy makers, and perhaps ethicists to weigh evidence on this issue. That body (or a framework for assembling such a body) should be established now, so that if a better technology becomes available, no time is wasted in gathering the right people. I imagine...
...that aims to facilitate student ride-sharing opened around midnight this morning, less than a week after some UC representatives responded to student criticism with a call to dissolve the initiative. The new service uses the Web interface at UCRides.org in conjunction with text messaging to help students arrange joint transport to and from common destinations such as Logan airport and New York City. “The goal is to get people to the airport as quickly and cheaply as possible,” said Tom D. Hadfield ’08, who sponsored the original UC Rides legislation...