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...project is on educating the public about the dangers of preterm labor--and reminding physicians that a vacation, for instance, isn't a good-enough reason to schedule an early delivery. The assumption: if mothers knew the real risks of prematurity, they would be less likely to request induced labor or a C-section and would stick out the pregnancy to term...
...December 2000, the humanitarian-aid group Doctors Without Borders sought to distribute a generic version of Zerit in AIDS-ravaged South Africa. Bristol-Myers Squibb balked at the request...
...Harvard’s librarians were to have the guts to challenge the constitutionality of “national security letters” in court—as four Connecticut librarians recently did, persisting long enough for the FBI to drop first the gag rule and then the information request altogether—we seem to be stuck in a situation where we will remain uncertain about the privacy of our research. Every member of the Harvard community, from part-time undergraduates to tenured faculty, has cause for concern. There is nothing more unsavory than the concept of honest academic...
...troop withdrawal as a bold move that helped Democrats win last week's elections. Still, it's not entirely clear how strongly Pelosi will back Murtha; her letter doesn't actually ask others to join his camp, but simply points out that it is in response to Murtha's request for an endorsement...
...majority of the names of those executed are never made public. Human Rights Watch, which monitors the fairness of judicial systems around the world, is concerned about the ability of defendants in Iraq to get a fair trial and access to a thorough appeals process. Iraq has repeatedly rebuffed requests from the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights for statistics on the country's death-penalty cases, leading the high commissioner to request that Iraq commute all death sentences. The government has refused. In a written response to the U.N., the government said that suspending capital punishment...