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...understanding of human diseases and to illuminate possible treatments and cures,” Summers said. “We take seriously the ethical issues involved, which have been subject to careful review at Harvard and at other institutions, and believe that it is vitally important to carefully proceed with such research...
Saller says although some were concerned by Harvard’s decision to proceed, many universities were satisfied with the compromise. The provosts of many of the schools shared their views on the compromise during a summer conference call, he says...
...committed to the date. Given the widely expected dominance at the polls of the Shiite religious parties, the interim prime minister's own tenure will likely be ended as a result of the election. But Allawi is under tremendous pressure from both the U.S. and the Shiite majority to proceed on schedule. For the Bush administration, postponement is too great a concession to the insurgency it has struggled to contain in Iraq, let alone defeat. Delay also opens a legal and political minefield - the current interim government has no mandate beyond the January 30 election - and raises the specter...
...tasks?from bag check-in to seat assignments. These pampered passengers?only about 350 daily?then wait in an opulent lounge with overstuffed Italian leather chairs, a linen-tablecloth restaurant, offices and a cigar room with a selection of whiskeys. Five to 12 minutes before departure time, fliers will proceed to the customs desk (no line here!), from which they will be whisked across the tarmac in a Mercedes or Porsche to their plane. Lufthansa is planning another exclusive terminal in Munich, and may consider similar lounges and the personal assistant service for passengers traveling from airports like New York...
...vastly lower. While all of us are vulnerable to the furies of nature--earthquakes, droughts, floods, epidemic diseases, blights and pests--these scourges systematically claim the lives of the poor in vastly greater numbers than they do the rich. Yet therein lies one key answer on how we should proceed in the wake of this disaster...