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That's where Mohammed's group first saw Atoor several years ago, at the Khadimiya Women's Prison in northern Baghdad. Now 18, Atoor married her 19-year-old sweetheart, a policeman called Bilal, when she was 15. Three months later he was dead, killed during one of the many bloody episodes in Iraq's brutal war. After the obligatory four-month mourning period dictated by Islamic Shari'a law, Atoor's mother and two brothers made it clear that they intended to sell her to a brothel close to their home in western Baghdad, just as they had sold...
...comment this week. Their Institute—which has served in recent years as a reliable fountain of important discoveries in stem cell biology—provides seed grants for researchers.With the Bush administration restricting government funding to only experiments performed on pre-existing stem cell lines, researchers saw an opportunity for Harvard to become a pioneer in stem cell biology and quickly pressed administrators to aid the newly-emerging field. “Harvard and some other institutions at the time suggested that we needed to do what we could do to further this promising field and simultaneously work...
...that was the carrot for lawmakers, his command that they fix the problem was the stick. At one point, he joked about Whitehouse's allusion during the breakout session to Thelma and Louise, a movie that ends with the protagonists dying in a blaze of glory. "If you actually saw the movie, they did drive over the cliff," he said, to laughter. "So just want to be clear, that's not our intention here...
...country's plan "should be front-loaded and forceful," said China's central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan. "If confidence collapses, it's too late for us to react. It takes a long time to recover. We learned this from the experience of other countries." Zhou said he saw some signs of improvement in China's economic data, implying that big increases in stimulus spending were unlikely in the near future. In other words, if the rest of the world wants a rescue, it should save itself...
...Some economists argue it is unrealistic to expect that China, which saw its slowest growth in seven years last quarter, will be able to boost its domestic demand through short-term spending enough to mitigate steep declines in global trade. "The idea that China will be helping the rest of the world is a myth," says Ben Simpfendorfer, a Hong Kong-based China economist for the Royal Bank of Scotland. "Almost half of what it imports is related to export processing. A large share of the remainder is commodities. It imports little for its own consumption. That befits its status...