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...potential link between Taser use and death: "Since June 2001, more then 330 people in the USA are reported to have died after being struck by police Tasers...Many were subjected to multiple or prolonged shocks, often far more than the standard five-second cycle, despite warnings for several years of the potential health risks of such deployment...
...university, drawing together scientists and administrators from business, academia and other research organizations. But people who sat in on the panel - which was not open to the general public - said that researchers and lawmakers discussed why and how to improve U.S. research and development, as well as the link between innovation and prosperity. Attendees included high-level representatives of Intel, Merck, the American Chemical Society, the Association of American Universities and the National Academy of Engineering...
...holes in the front yard were obvious rat burrows, and there were lots of them. Mills pointed out freshly dug dirt from one of them - evidence that the hole had probably been active the night before. Further confirmation: tiny droppings in the corner where the chain-link fence meets the front wall of the house. "I've been trying to get into that house for the past three to four months," Mills says of the boarded-up building...
...We’ve literally put our plan in a book,” Campbell says. “There’s something, somewhere, for everyone.”The OIP is not alone in encouraging study abroad. In the past, programs run by or directly linked to Harvard and Harvard faculty have been rare, and, for the most part, confined to the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. But across campus, departments are taking study abroad more seriously, says Cheryl Welch, the director of undergraduate studies for the government department. “There?...
...have broken out in both Mexico and Guatemala, as traffickers seek to reposition their operations. Mexican cartels are also looking to control routes along the highly porous Guatemala-Mexico border and elsewhere in Central America. "Now there's an all-out struggle to see who gets to dominate this link in the drug trafficking chain," says Bagley. The contenders include Mexico's two dominant drug enterprises - the Sinaloa and Gulf cartels, along with their Guatemalan partners...