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...Personalized Home Page There's been so much co-opting in the portal wars that we're not surprised to see Google offering custom home pages, a la My Yahoo and My MSN (and soon there will be My AOL too-see below). But Google's version manages to maintain a streamlined design, even with a busier page. You can elect to display news headlines from a few different sources (the New York Times, BBC News, Wired), plus local weather, a Quote of the Day and a snapshot of your Gmail inbox. You must register for a Google account...
...secrecy. By the time the extent of starvation was known by the outside world, it was too late. Significant U.S. food aid didn't arrive until late 1997, when the famine had already peaked. The specter of emaciated North Korean children once again threatens to complicate efforts to maintain stability on the peninsula. Trying to pressure North Korea by cutting off aid has in the past had little apparent effect on Pyongyang's policies and tactics. Kim's regime shrugs off the suffering of its citizens and the government has proved surprisingly resilient. China, the North's ally and biggest...
...human stem-cell lines that are perfectly matched to the dna of human patients. That story gave me mingled feelings of delight and worry. Although the whole world is now one step closer to an ideal situation for studying how diseases develop, I worry about whether the U.S. can maintain its scientific and technological superiority. Many other countries have been vigorously pursuing stem-cell projects, while the U.S. government restricts the research that federally funded scientists may do in that field. I hope that despite the roadblock, more Americans may be inspired by the successes in South Korea...
Harvard then went on to win two more critical down-to-the-wire matches, holding off defending champion Penn at the Palestra and upending Brown in Providence to maintain its hold on first place in the standings...
...CCSR “has already admitted the close nexus between oil revenue and the ongoing Sudanese genocide,” Manav K. Bhatnagar ’06, co-founder of HarvardDivest.com, said last month. “In light of that, it is egregious that they continue to maintain their holdings in foreign oil companies in Sudan...