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...20th Century's greatest feats of engineering: over a decade, vast battalions of workers braved illness and misadventure to carve a 50-mile long channel through the Panamanian isthmus to connect the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. But for University of Maryland history professor Julie Greene, the project was about more than miles dug or dirt shifted. "We have long perceived the canal as involving conquest over nature, and there's some truth in that. But it also involved conquest over the tens of thousands of men and women in the Canal Zone and in the Republic of Panama...
...course, a better option than getting laid off, not receiving our 2008 tax refund or being unable to drive through an abandoned highway repair project - the brutal realities of a state in freefall with no balanced budget. But it's still a bit of a shock. "The average Californian hasn't figured out exactly what this particular budget means for him or her yet," says Mark Baldassare, president and chief executive officer of the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California. "But they're going to feel it soon...
...credit ratings and business reputation, a long haul is ahead for citizens and businesses already reeling from the foreclosure catastrophe and high unemployment rates. "This is the most serious budget crisis in my lifetime - and I have gray hair," says Jean Ross, executive director of the nonpartisan California Budget Project. "It will have a significant impact on Californians for the next 18 months and for years to come...
...outreach center at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. The exhibition has proven an effective way of communicating the crux of Muslim spirituality. But this is just one small step. “Much more needs to be done. This should ideally be part of a larger project at Harvard incorporating the arts as powerful vehicles to foster learning and teaching about cultures that are not properly understood,” Asani explains. “This would be in keeping with the recently released recommendations of the Task Force on the Arts...
...revolutionary potential to solve the mysteries of the mind.“I think it holds the promise of changing how we look at genetics and the brain and consciousness,” Sanes says. “It’s like the human genome project.”Though the researchers have hopes for brainbow, the technique must clear some hurdles before it can illuminate the course of mental diseases and disorders.To produce the maps, researches add specialized genes to individual neurons, causing them to glow fluorescently in different colors. A connectome’s map is built...