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...world's fish catch, completely failed to follow the code. Only six countries had compliance scores above 60% - top performers were Norway and the U.S. - yet even these leaders failed to adhere to several aspects of the code. "We found it really disappointing," says Tony Pitcher, a professor in the department of zoology at UBC. "We didn't think it would be quite as bad as this, but this is what we found...
Samuel Shapiro, a visiting professor of epidemiology at University of Capetown, notes that any cancers that might have existed in breast tissue when these women stopped hormone therapy would not have simply disappeared post-treatment. "Once the growth of a tumor has accelerated, it can't be decelerated," he says. "I'm not aware of any evidence to show that happens...
Kennedy School Professor Graham T. Allison Jr.—who met Power when she was a third-year student at Harvard Law School and later co-edited a book on human rights with her—said that Power’s academic work may provide the best clues for how she will shape foreign policy in her new role...
Kennedy School Professor Jeffrey A. Frankel points to her “passionate” efforts in bringing the issues raised by the Rwandan genocide, for example, to national attention...
...freight rail, which has even greater environmental and economic advantages. Expanded unemployment benefits and food stamps would be excellent stimulus - and those are both desperately needed right now. Retrofitting federal buildings to use less energy would provide jobs now and reduce federal energy costs in the future. By contrast, professor Feldstein's proposal to beef up the military could dramatically increase both our future obligations for pensions and health-care costs for veterans. In general, most of the current proposals (though not all of them) aim to limit the new spending to the next two years...