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...Nevertheless, Tanjeloff is optimistic. “The fact that it’s in print is huge; it’s in people’s doors, in their faces,” he said...
Summers issued three statements of apology last week. In the final, most contrite one, he said, "I deeply regret the impact of my comments ... I was wrong to have spoken in a way that has resulted in an unintended signal of discouragement to talented girls and women." Nevertheless, his original remarks set off a furor that will not quickly die down. A letter endorsed by some 120 Harvard professors said the speech reinforced "an institutional culture at Harvard that erects numerous barriers to improving the representation of women on the faculty...
Genentech says it pioneered the use of antibodies that target the surface protein of cancer, and its popular drugs work on that principle. Nevertheless, Mather saw a way to carve several years out of drug development and left to found Raven Biotechnologies, a drug-discovery company based in South San Francisco. She created a process to keep cells alive outside the body, so she could test her theory in the lab. Her efforts paid off. In December the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved one of her drugs for human testing. The drug, called RAV 12, is a protein that...
...Nevertheless, for Abbas, the elections were the easy part; the real challenges are yet to come. Chairman Abbas is taking on one of the most difficult jobs in the world. On the one hand, he has to maintain popular support by reforming the Palestinian Authority and orchestrating a strategy that can put an end to Israeli military occupation. On the other hand he has to prove tough against militants to guarantee the cooperation of Israel and the United States...
...Bush signed an order deeming al-Qaeda combatants "unlawful" and thus not deserving of prisoner-of-war status or the protections Geneva provided. "The war on terrorism," wrote Bush, "... ushered in not by us but by terrorists, requires new thinking in the law of war, but thinking that should nevertheless be consistent with the principles of Geneva...