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...first step of a worldwide campaign aimed at raising awareness of the problem and persuading governments to impose tougher penalties and improve routine testing of medications. The larger goal is to establish an international convention on counterfeit drugs as early as next year. Marc Gentilini, a French medical professor and expert on tropical diseases who is advising Chirac, says the problem is urgent. The lack of clear international rules governing counterfeit medicines, he says, means that trafficking them is currently "less risky and more lucrative than trafficking narcotics...
...while other scientists take the new result seriously, they're not quite ready to buy into it completely. "It's a really worthwhile and bold effort to understand a period we have a hard time explaining," says Ed Boyle, a professor of ocean geochemistry at MIT. "My cautious view is that this looks promising right now, but I've been studying chemical tracers in foraminifera for pretty much my whole career, and there are often unexpected twists and turns." It is, he says, "the kind of thing where they may turn out to be right, and we'll look back...
Madeleine K. Albright: the first female Secretary of State, professor of Eastern European studies at Georgetown, United States Ambassador to the U.N., and ... serious fashionista? Most people wouldn’t think so, but apparently the word fits Albright...
...former Harvard Medical School professor and his business partner have been identified as suspects in connection with an alleged art theft case that they brought to the attention of police, and are being investigated for allegedly failing to cooperate with authorities...
...Though professors and students admitted they don't eat out a great deal, several said they will miss Bombay Club—including Law School Professor Alan M. Dershowitz, a Bombay Club regular...