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...Senator Charles E. Grassley, an Iowa Republican, brought to light possible conflicts of interest in early June when he revealed that psychiatrists Joseph Biederman, Thomas J. Spencer, and Timothy E. Wilens of Harvard-affiliated Mass. General Hospital failed to report the full amount—totaling over $4 million??€”that they earned from drug companies over the last seven years, according to the senator’s investigation...
...points in an average of five national polls. The RNC’s repercussions may be different. The convention’s focus on Palin left a lasting impression on Americans. After Palin’s speech Wednesday night at the convention, Obama’s campaign made $10 million??€”a one-day fundraising record. Coincidence or not? I leave the comparison...
...first phase of the project—estimated to have cost $2 million??€”began with construction in Lowell and Winthrop because the University believed work there could be finished before September, Associate Dean of the College Martha Coburn predicted. But renovations continued into the fall term...
Clearly, something needs to be done. As Americans, we have been, until recently, the largest contributors to the problem; 0.1 Zetajoules of energy are consumed annually in the United States—a nation of about 300 million??€”compared to the 0.45 Zetajoules of energy consumed globally—a population now over 6.5 billion—in 2005. Fortunately, efforts are being made to raise U.S. awareness of global warming and to reduce American consumption and demand for energy. Campaigns of varying scale, from student-led initiatives on campuses around the country to national documentaries, are being...
...majority of Iraqis, the future is bleak indeed. More than two million??€”most of them middle-class professionals—have left the country, with another two million internally displaced. This means that, for those who remain, the numbers of doctors, professors, university teachers, engineers and technicians available to them sinks by the day. Meanwhile, central government has more or less ceased to exist, leaving the provision of social services to local sectarian strong-men and their militias who allocate these services on a mainly religio-political basis. In short, most Iraqis now live in localities governed...