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...dearth of social services in poor countries is a major factor contributing to the transnational adoption rate. She said that the number of transnational adoptions of Paraguayan children dropped from over 600 to 50 annually after Paraguay instituted initiatives to help poor mothers and began to monitor and restrict the adoptions. Bartholet cited other benefits of transnational adoption, namely that the system exposes the world to injustices and detrimental situations in other countries, such as gender discrimination in China. “Adoption is an amazingly mind-opening experience for the parents. It makes them less racist, more globalist...
Akunyili's first move, when she took over the drug-control agency, was to restrict pharmaceutical imports to just two airports and two seaports, each staffed by NAFDAC officials. The agency also made a list of 19 Indian and Chinese companies that had been indicted for manufacturing fake drugs and banned their products. It placed analysts in India and China to recertify any drugs manufactured in those countries before they could be shipped to Nigeria...
...high-speed tricks of its own. d3o's molecules flow as an athlete moves, but on impact they bind together instantaneously to absorb shock, then unlock to become soft and elastic once again. "It's a protective system that changes shape with you, so it doesn't restrict you at all and by stiffening spreads the load and reduces tendency to bruising," says Green, a materials scientist and d3o's research director...
...should: even a Lamont library decked out in comfortable chairs and open 24 hours can’t compete with the possibility of combining digital lecture videos with wireless networking and watching Chem lectures without ever getting out of bed. The real question, though, is why should we even restrict ourselves to beds here at Harvard? Why not watch lectures poolside in southern California, or from ski lodges in Colorado or cruise ships sailing across the Caribbean?The past year has turned these admittedly far-fetched possibilities into a more and more reasonable alternative. For one, more classes (and more...
...institutions—reiterated his group’s contention yesterday that the Solomon Amendment violates the Law School’s right to free speech and association.“In effect, the Solomon Amendment is one of the most aggressive attempts on the part of Congress to restrict the exercise of Constitutional rights,” Greenfield told the packed room of nearly 100 people.Eastman, who filed a friend-of-the-court brief in July supporting the Solomon Amendment, called the dispute an issue of “fundamental moral principle.” He countered the arguments...