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Harvard Medical School (HMS) is creating a major new endowment to help attract and retain gifted teachers in an institution often dominated by research...
...encryption and a favorable legal environment to change the source of their income from occasional sales to regular monthly or annual fees. A consumer who buys a product is far less vulnerable than one who merely rents or licenses a product--and what business wouldn't want to retain that kind of control? And as license agreements proliferate and electronic goods play an ever greater role in our lives, the impact on society of this transfer in control will be profound...
...biggest force provider, followed by France and Britain. There's some opposition in Britain from Conservative party 'Euroskeptics' who see this as another erosion of British sovereignty, but there are very few grounds for this argument since the force is, like NATO, comprised of entirely separate national contingents which retain their own command structures...
Here is a choice between an apparently amiable fellow who talks about bringing people together and a man with 24 years' experience in national government and international affairs who is extraordinarily competent, clear-headed, fair-minded, egalitarian to the bones; who will enact policies that retain and make the best use of our astonishing prosperity; and who is--as I know personally--big-hearted, honest, loyal, devoted to his wife, children and friends and (does one really need to say this?) likable...
...Interracial marriage: ALABAMA voters will decide whether to strike a ban on interracial marriages from the state constitution. This is a procedural vote, since the law has not been enforced for many years, but the legislature must retain constituent approval before officially striking down the law. Political analysts predict the effort will pass - but that anti-civil rights forces will push the opposing tally to near 35 percent...