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Bill Jaeger, director of HUCTW, said that the NLC is exaggerating the problem, and although the prospect of layoffs is scary to employees, the activist group is misrepresenting the magnitude of upcoming job cuts...
...work, after all, is just beginning. Ho's team in New York City has analyzed the first material from the blood samples. "It looks really good," says Ho, visibly brightening at the prospect of finally starting up his vaccine studies. "Any one of the sites in Yunnan would work well for a vaccine trial." Starting those trials will mean China is that much closer to controlling HIV and slowing the spread of those earthen graves of family members claimed by AIDS...
...Indiana Jones ride at Disneyland. "I'm pushing to have the amusement parks warn unsuspecting guests that even if they believe they are in good health, there is a risk they could suffer a serious injury," says her attorney, Barry Novack. Theme-park officials are not atingle at the prospect of being lumped with common carriers. "We're in the business of thrilling people and having excitement," says industry attorney Wayne Pierce. "When is the last time you were on an exciting escalator or bus ride...
...under the HRA could easily persuade law schools in D.C. to stop actively cooperating with the military. Moreover, since most of the area law schools seem to oppose military recruiting in principle, they might be willing—once a formal legal challenge were filed, and they faced the prospect of damages and attorney fee awards—to enter into a consent decree prohibiting their active cooperation with military recruiters...
President Summers also warns in his letter that “the University must exercise considerable restraint when it comes to the prospect of confronting the government through the quintessentially adversarial act of filing a lawsuit.” Yet it was he who recently directed the University to file an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court case over affirmative action at the University of Michigan. We believe that allowing the Law School to join FAIR would be no more confrontational. Harvard would not be a party in the FAIR lawsuit, only a member of the organization...