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...past six months, citing political differences. Erdogan has so far failed to appoint a chief negotiator for E.U. talks in October or to sign a protocol establishing ties with existing member states, a key condition for the talks. "The government has lost its focus," says Cengiz Aktar, a political scientist at Galatasaray University. The result is an increasingly divided society and, in Turkey's volatile southeast where most Kurds live, a greater number of abuses by the authorities, claims Selahattin Demirtas of the Human Rights Association in Diyarbakir. "The verdict by the European Court on Ocalan only reinforces the idea...
...World Health Organization (WHO) supports the position outlined in the HSPH press release, said Randa Saadeh, a scientist in the Department of Nutrition...
Election into the NAS, a non-profit group of scholars dedicated to advances in science and technology, is generally regarded as one of the highest honors that can be bestowed upon a scientist, according to the NAS website...
...American Prometheus” is an exhaustive 600-page biography of the fascinating J. Robert Oppenheimer ’25, remembered by history as the “father of the atomic bomb.” Journalist Kai Bird and Tufts professor Martin J. Sherwin track the scientist from childhood to death, thoroughly charting his rise and fall through interviews, letters, and transcripts. After following Oppenheimer’s path for a quarter-century, the authors will return tonight to their subject’s alma mater, speaking at 6:30 p.m. at the Harvard Book Store...
Oppenheimer had his silent revenge, though. Strauss’s unconscionable actions against the famed scientist led senators to reject his appointment as commerce secretary. Oppenheimer lived out the rest of his days at Princeton, dying at age 62 when his smoking habit finally caught up with him in the form of cancer. Oppenheimer had been publicly redeemed though. He received the Fermi Prize for public service from President Johnson, and he was portrayed sympathetically in a 1964 play that attracted international acclaim...