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...protest America’s involvement in the Iraq conflict. Marchers filled in the blank on their signs with everything from the general—“Student”—to the specific—“Photographer,” “Scientist,” and “Painter”—to the humorous—“Geek” and “Left Wing Wacko/Fidelista.” Even the path they marched upon became part of the protest when a participant taped...
...cases to reduce the chance that corrupt officials can rely on local connections to avoid punishment, fundamental weaknesses remain. Corruption-fighting efforts are subject to political interference, and watchdog powers of the press and citizens are limited. "The other side is missing," says Yan Sun, a political scientist at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York...
Five years ago, British scientist Colin Pillinger convinced the world's biggest medical-research charity, the Wellcome Trust, to bet on a project far beyond its usual scope: a probe to find life on Mars. Detecting life on other planets, he argued, would be a giant leap for mankind toward understanding the origins of life back on earth. But in 2003, the Beagle 2 probe - worth tens of millions of dollars, and carrying a gas-analysis unit bankrolled by Wellcome - disappeared without a trace into the Martian atmosphere. Four years later, scientists and funders alike are delighted...
...services at Ernst & Young and Raymond James. He met McColl in Charlotte, where Bank of America is based. Michalewicz's father Zbigniew is a product of Warsaw's famed schools of mathematics and a former chairman of the computer-science department at uncc; he serves as NuTech's head scientist. Father and son, who immigrated from Poland in 1989, started NuTech with businessman Daniel Cullen. In April they were able to organize a meeting with Walesa through connections there. Walesa, who leads a foundation that promotes a free-market economy in Poland, says that although he is happy...
...Neil Cashman thought he had the answer. The University of Toronto scientist had spent his career trying to sift out the misshapen clumps of proteins thought to cause neurodegenerative diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) that hid in a sandbox of normal proteins. In 2002 he finally succeeded, using a chemical agent to alter normal proteins but not so-called aggregated misfolded ones, leaving the clumps easier to detect. It would become the formula for a diagnostic kit usable by blood banks everywhere...