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...staggering cost overrun has forced the resignation of house speaker Jeff Groscost and prompted a criminal probe by state attorney general Janet Napolitano. She cautions, however, that "stupidity, incompetence and greed are not violations...
...Monday, and that may mean bad news for both Israel and the next U.S. president. Israel has waived its earlier calls to postpone the Mitchell investigation pending a reduction in the level of violence, freeing the former U.S. senator and his panel of distinguished European leaders to begin their probe into the causes of the current violence that had been mandated as part of the Sharm el-Sheik cease-fire agreement. Investigations launched by Amnesty International, the U.N. Commission on Human Rights and the Israeli peace movement have strongly criticized Israel for using excessive force in response to the Palestinian...
...that may change. Backed by a grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts, researchers have designed a questionnaire to probe the frequency with which students engage in activities that studies have shown to be important to learning. Last spring 63,000 freshmen and seniors at 276 colleges and universities filled out the first round of the National Survey of Student Engagement, which included questions about how much time they spent preparing for class and how often they worked with a faculty member on research or wrote papers of 20 pages or more. "The more time and energy individuals spend...
...process that was expected to take decades. Harvard biochemists MacBeath and Schreiber have found a way to speed things up with Protein Microarrays. Using a robotic arm and a tiny quill, they will allow researchers to deposit 10,000 functional proteins onto a single microscope slide and quickly probe how each interacts with other proteins and potential drugs...
...under encouragement from President Clinton Barak agreed in principle that it should begin work immediately. The commission, constituted by Clinton as part of the Sharm El Sheik cease-fire agreement, is headed by former senator George Mitchell, and includes a number of senior European officials. Its mandate is to probe the causes of current violence, and the President believes that its presence can help foster a climate for renewed talks...