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...competitive issue among states,” Daley said. “The concentration of talent and funding in states like New York make it a very attractive area for investigators just beginning research with stem cells.”Daley said he also supported the idea of a merit-based system for distributing state funding. “We have a vibrant private sector here in Massachusetts, where some of the best science is being done,” he said. “We have to remember that the most important goal in funding should be the advancement...
...says. “Books are interactive media too, and look at the amount of killing and violence that the Bible has caused. But the Bible is neither good nor bad.”So why hesitate to spend time with your controller? Well, perhaps the merit of moderation applies. Can there be too much of a good thing?Though video games provide seemingly positive effects such as community, enjoyment, and even emotional depth, there are instances when a good time can get out of hand.“At least 90 percent of the people that play these games...
...studies are needed, he says, "because as we learn to manipulate dream content, we can start to figure out what the rules are that the brain uses in selecting material for our dreams." Though not sold on the memory-consolidation theory, the Dream & Nightmare Laboratory's Nielsen sees merit in it. Of course, if dreaming does embed memories it's doing it in ways we don't understand, he says. "Perhaps memory needs to be sliced and diced and then reassembled in odd ways in order for consolidation to be maximized...
...impossible and harmful to the people of Sudan. Our policy is narrowly tailored to ensure that only companies that are funding the genocide and doing nothing to stop it—just like Petrochina and Sinopec—are targeted. Harvard has already decided two companies of this type merit divestment for their role in the genocide; we are merely asking them to extend this policy to other similar companies. We agree that extensive research and shareholder engagement should occur before any company is targeted for divestment, but campus advocacy need not occur every time...
...Normally, vanished intelligence officers barely merit one short paragraph on page eight. Asgari is different, though. As the IRGC commander in Lebanon in the late '80s and early '90s, he knows dirty secrets, secrets that could be used to justify going to war with Iran. Asgari was in the IRGC's chain of command when it was kidnapping and assassinating Westerners in Lebanon in the '80s. Asgari knows a lot about other IRGC-ordered, Lebanon-based terrorist attacks, including the October 1983 Marine barracks bombing in Beirut and the 1996 bombing of Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia...