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...head-scarf debate - like anything to do with religion - is charged with emotion. France defends its ban in schools as a necessary step to maintain the nation's official commitment to secularism, pointing out that it also applies to Jewish skullcaps and Christian crosses. But Birgit Sauer, a political scientist at the University of Vienna, says the timing of these new laws shows that Europe is still unwilling to accept Islam as an element of its identity. "All these states had trouble balancing religion with secularism long before Sept. 11," she says. "So you have to ask, Why now? What...
...million Prize that Virgin Group chairman Richard Branson will pay the first scientist who comes up with a system for extracting greenhouse gases from the atmosphere...
There was more to Pusey than just charming good looks. According to Gomes, the difference between Conant and Pusey was that of the absent scientist versus the present humanist; Pusey had a “very fresh perspective.” But Pusey’s progressiveness was not enough to shelter him from the tumult...
...Allston.“People are going to watch the budget—where does money go, where do new professorships go,” Mendelsohn said. Faust, a scholar of the Civil War and the American South, will be the fifth consecutive Harvard president who is not a scientist. While some Harvard observers have wondered whether her credentials measure up to the needs of a university in the process of aggressively expanding research, FAS professors interviewed yesterday praised the way she nurtured science as dean.“She’s done a good job at bringing scientists...
Princeton system. Verba estimates that the out-of-copyright books being scanned may comprise around 20% of Harvard’s collections. However, Verba expressed a hope that eventually it might be possible to expand the project to include copyrighted material. “As a political scientist, I believe that the copyright laws have become far too restrictive,” said Verba. Verba also noted that the University of Michigan’s library, another member of the Google Library project, was already scanning copyrighted material because it is a public institution. Trainer, who is a member...