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...executive director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society and a professor at Harvard Law School. “It would be a very good sign for American politics if we saw more young people engage in political discussion,” he added. Jose Antonio Vargas, a political reporter for The Washington Post, believes that the application could even increase the number of young voters. “There’s still plenty of students out there who aren’t politically active, and all it takes now is one click,” he said...
...MBTA spokeswoman Lydia M. Rivera, who added that the transit authority has been testing the system among its employees. Rivera said that the users in the initial, limited launch were signed up on a first-come, first-served basis. Similar programs exist in New York City and Washington, D.C. Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez, professor and chairman of the faculty at the Graduate School of Design, calls the new program a “great idea.” “This has to be an improvement, as long as the information is reasonably accurate—that?...
...precisely the threat of non-passage of the trade agreement that has led to the improvement on that investigative front, say Colombian union leaders. "Without that pressure from the U.S. the Colombian government would not be acting to clear up these cases and seek convictions," says Jose Luciano Sanin, director of the Escuela Nacional Sindical, a labor rights group that tracks violence against Colombia's labor movement. "All of a sudden, with this external pressure, impunity in union cases has become a priority because it is a condition for approval...
...with reporting by Matt Kettmann/San Jose and Siobhan Morrissey/Aventura
...first thing Jose Halloy wants you to know is that he will not help you get rid of the cockroaches in your apartment. It's true that he and his colleagues at the Free University of Brussels and several other European institutions have created a set of tiny robotic Pied Pipers that can trick roaches into following them - even to places where a sensible roach would never venture. But the research they've just described in Science has to do not with extermination strategy but with understanding how roaches make decisions. "When you observe cockroaches," says Halloy, "you see that...