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...research too fast. Regarding his surveillance proposal, which would rely on law enforcement investigating flagged reports, Church argues, “We have to get the FBI interested enough in reports. I don’t think this is self-governance.”While ETC would prefer that research were halted in time for policy makers to assess the synbio landscape, the truth is that if research in this field were slowed in the U.S., international laboratories would have an instant scientific advantage. This would be similar in the way that strict domestic stem cell research policies have allowed...
...often explores homosexual themes in his Matisse-influenced paintings. Earlier this year, an installation in which Tan constructed a 2-m-high diaper out of police uniforms was promptly shut down. The threat of official interference means that many Hanoi galleries - there are dozens in the art-mad town - prefer to trade in naive village scenes that feel almost deliberately apolitical...
...Jay” Ellison, the secretary of the Administrative Board, wrote in an e-mail.Aside from the health risks involved with drugs and alcohol, Kidd said Harvard has also been pushed to make changes because of legal issues. “We all know you drink. The College would prefer to worry [only] about unsafe drinking, but since the legal drinking age is 21, we have to worry about underage drinking,” she said.Kidd added that the policy has room for understanding and flexibility. “It doesn’t mean [a student group leader will...
...almost axiomatic in some circles - mostly notably the Romney campaign - that Giuliani cannot survive all the scrutiny that will come with being perceived, rightly or wrongly, as the G.O.P. front-runner. But that remains to be seen, and given a choice, most candidates would certainly prefer scrutiny to obscurity. Most of the other Republicans, after all, went unmentioned in Philadelphia, save for Sen. Barack Obama's sly (but no doubt rehearsed) aside at the end of the night that he might don a Mitt Romney mask for Halloween. "It has," he said, "two sides...
Graham, who will turn 89 next month, had been hoping to make the trip at some point and even joked to the President that he would prefer to meet him in Crawford, Texas, rather than Washington. He told us in January that he was concerned about the President - and worried about the progress of the war in Iraq, where his grandson was fighting as an Army Ranger. The President called the preacher after Ruth's death, and last week finally managed to meet with him. "They shared fellowship and prayer and encouragement," said one well-placed source...