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However normal or impressive, research inCambridge only constitutes a small percentage ofHarvard's animal research. Most of the workhappens across the Charles River, at the MedicalArea in Boston, where there is one less layer ofregulation, and where government research fundingis plentiful...
...deepest layer of Prague is spiky, medieval, dark with coal dust. For years Vaclav Havel could look out from his dilapidated apartment building, across the fast, shallow Vltava River, and see the castle on the hill -- Hradcany, the high, elaborate complex that dominates the city. He could cross the river by the 14th century Charles Bridge, lined on either side with beseeching, tormented statuary -- church fathers, age-blackened saints...
...medieval lies Prague's socialist layer, the residue of neglect and cynicism, the peeling paint, the shop shelves half empty from the day before yesterday when the Bohemians and Moravians and Slovaks were under occupation -- a nation landbound and Lenin-bound as well...
...global warming has been put off five years at least, thanks to last year's eruption of Mount Pinatubo. When the Philippine volcano blew its top, it lofted some 20 million tons of sulfur dioxide into the upper atmosphere. Since then, the stuff has circled the globe, forming a layer of droplets floating in the stratosphere, between 19 and 23 km (12 and 14 miles) above the surface. Scientists predicted that the droplets would act as a worldwide sun shield. Satellite measurements are proving they were right: the planet has cooled off about 0.5 degreesC (1 degreesF) since Pinatubo, erasing...
While the natural inclination is to dismiss Robb as merely another member of the lunatic fringe, one cannot so easily dismiss the forces that drive his crusade or its impact. His updated rhetoric provides a paper-thin layer of respectability to a noxious creed that appeals to alienated white youths like Shawn Slater, whom Robb is grooming as a future Klan leader. An ex-skinhead, Slater now heads the Klan's chapter in Aurora, Colo. Like his mentor, Slater has mastered the art of attracting publicity by staging events that draw the wrath of protesters. In Denver last January...