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...test of new President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's pledge to run an open and accountable administration. Yudhoyono set up a 12-member commission consisting of human-rights activists, legal and justice department officials, and a police brigadier. Based on its early findings, police last week arrested a Garuda pilot, Pollycarpus Budihari Priyanto, on suspicion of involvement in the activist's death...
...says David Bermudes, director of microbiology at Vion. With a simple change in the bacterium's genome, the Vion team and Yale scientists were able to give salmonella the ability to convert a powerful compound found naturally in the body into a toxic chemotherapy agent. In a small pilot study conducted at the Mary Crowley Medical Research Center in Dallas, 2 of 3 patients given the modified salmonella showed signs that the chemotherapy agent was active. "It's a proof of principle that the strategy is working," says Bermudes. While his team seeks a partner to continue these studies, Vion...
...more than four decades the Federal Aviation Administration has forced airline pilots to retire at age 60. The so-called "Age 60 rule" was adopted with virtually no medical data to support it then, and, critics say, it remains in place today despite studies that show that older fliers can still be capable pilots. The experience of major carriers outside the U.S. confirms that qualified pilots over age 59 continue to fly safely, and the FAA has not identified a single airliner accident in the U.S. attributable to the age of a pilot. But airlines have continued to support...
Google is in the process of scanning 40,000 Harvard library books, which will be made available for browsing on the internet. Harvard is taking part in Google Print’s pilot program, which also includes collaborations with the University of Michigan, Oxford University, Stanford University, and the New York Public Library. If successful, Harvard may opt to digitize all 15 million of its volumes...
...Jonathan Zittrain, faculty co-director of Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, wrote in an e-mail that he believes the pilot project is not a copyright infringement...