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...Eggan, the project’s principal investigator. Opponents of human embryonic stem cell research criticize studies such as those envisioned by the Harvard and Columbia teams for leading to the destruction of embryos that could develop into human beings. Last year, President George W. Bush vetoed legislation loosening restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. It was the first and only veto of Bush’s presidency. One month earlier, then-Governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney made moves to restrict funding for embryonic research in the state, but current Governor Deval L. Patrick...
...slow. "Dyscalculia is where dyslexia was 30, 40 or 50 years ago," says Mahesh Sharma, a professor of mathematics education at Cambridge College in Massachusetts. Indeed, even the definition is a bit fuzzy. Some researchers count disabilities in spatial perception or arithmetic operations as dyscalculia, while others restrict it to difficulty recognizing numbers normally. Cohen Kadosh's tests hold out the possibility that different math dysfunctions could well be processed elsewhere in the brain. "I won't say this study provides all the answers," says Sharma. Definitely not, but at least it helps show why, for some, two plus...
Clad in neon-green stickers reading “My Dog Loves Fresh Pond,” some 50 men and women gathered before the Cambridge City Council last night, protesting a proposed measure that would restrict the number and movement of dogs in the Fresh Pond area...
...face bones to a bruised liver--have been reported to United Educators Insurance, a major insurer of colleges, but so far, schools' liability exposure has been minimal. The question usually comes down to, Did officials know that students were jumping from high places? If so, did they try to restrict access to those areas? In October, Christopher Fu, a junior at the University of Illinois, got past a tall chain-link fence before plummeting to his death from the school's TV tower. Because Fu had expressed interest in a local parkour group on Facebook.com campus police couldn't determine...
...entertainment cocktail (four objectionable TV shows, mounds of explicit lyrics-laced music, and the very occasional hour of coarse videogaming). At least, not yet. But as the stakes get higher (and really, what’s higher than the highest office in all of the land?), the fight to restrict my entertainment bliss will become that much stronger...