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...last spring, Reinherz's team tentatively announced major implications for the treatment of cancer and AIDS. Is it a mere coincidence that a scientist who published a press release and reached for the newspapers at the time of a discovery is the same scientist who ends up having to retract his findings? Rather than a coincidence, the case may be a symptom of the changing environment of scientific research...
...Vatican attitude of openness and "confidence in the (Brazilian) bishops," two-thirds of whom side with some form of liberation theology. Nonetheless, Rome's action has not eliminated the rift between Boff and conservatives in the hierarchy. Moreover, it is still uncertain whether Rome will require Boff to retract some of the arguments in his troublesome book Church: Charism and Power (Crossroad), which described the relation between the hierarchy and laity in terms of class struggle...
...thing that it might have the beneficial effect of making its even more careful than we have been. AsGen Westmoreland acknowledged, in effect, when he withdrew his suit, we didn't have to retract a word of that broadcast. Which would seem to indicate that if was accurate, and that he and his attorneys understood that...
...Harvard's investments in Gulf Oil's South Africa holdings, took over University Hall in 1972. The ban on investments in banks that loan directly to the South African government closely followed the resurgence of anti-apartheid student activities in 1979. And when the University casually tried to retract that ban on loans to the pariah state, an overflow crowd of 400 students at an open meeting in 1982 denounced the move and stopped Harvard's retreat from an already minimalist and indefensible position...
...were only four written reports on her sessions. According to the Humphrey report, children were sometimes interviewed together and had a great deal of contact with one another, which could have resulted in the "cross-germination" of allegations. Under questioning from Humphrey's task force, many of the children retracted their stories. One boy who had claimed to have witnessed a teenager's grisly murder admitted to basing his story on a television program he had seen. He said that he lied about the murder to please Morris' investigators. Said an angry Morris: "It's easy to believe a child...