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...work on AIDS, but he argued it should license its intellectual property more widely. He urged the audience to “appeal to [university administrators’] good conscience; I believe they have it.” As he took the podium, Achmat removed his jacket to reveal his trademark, a black t-shirt with the words “HIV POSITIVE.” His speech to the crowd of more than 150 was lively and humorous, referring frankly to his own HIV-positive condition and identity as a gay man. Achmat is the chair and founder...
...first time the drawings have been seen together since the breakup of Michelangelo's studio in 1564, the year of his death at 88. Perhaps his most famous work, the vast Sistine Chapel ceiling fresco commissioned by Pope Julius II, was painted between 1508 and 1512. The preliminary sketches reveal Michelangelo's systematic methods. A composition of schematic figures was worked out, then in the studio his models assumed the dramatic attitudes required-poses that must have been hard to sustain, and had to be recorded rapidly. The final designs, scaled up on large pieces of paper, were transferred onto...
...exciting mind-body medicine frontiers. His best-known work focuses on a capacity of the brain to develop and change throughout life. Using Tibetan monks as research subjects, he has shown how meditation can improve brain function. His studies may lead to therapeutic approaches for anxiety disorders and reveal ways to protect against memory loss and cognitive decline...
...numbers reveal that only 41 out of the 64 teams (the University of Pennsylvania, which does not release its graduation rates, was not included) manage to shepherd at least 50 percent of their students to a college degree. A racial gap is also apparent. Thirty-eight teams saw 70 percent of their white players graduate compared to just 21 teams for black students, the study found...
...late 90s, Donaldson was accused by Britain of spying for the IRA, accusations which helped bring down Northern Ireland's landmark power sharing local government in 2002 amidst mutual suspicions and recrimination. Only after those charges were suddenly dropped against Donaldson and two others last December did he reveal on national TV the stunning news that he in fact had been on the British intelligence payroll for almost two decades, after, as he put it rather cryptically, "compromising myself during a vulnerable time in my life...