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...technologies approved by the Food and Drug Administration specifically for NTDs between 1975 and 1999 were developed exclusively through public avenues of funding. Universities, the originators of 50 of the 100 most important therapeutic interventions in use today, are the institutions best suited to combine the disciplinary scope in basic and social sciences with the international scale in research capacity to effectively meet the challenges posed by NTDs...
...When McCain publicly introduced his bill, which was later called the Detainee Treatment Act, he had narrowed the scope to require the field manual's use only for the military interrogations or interrogations on military property. But the McCain proposal did also make clear all U.S. Government agencies were banned from employing "cruel, inhuman or degrading" treatment of prisoners, as described by the U.S. Constitution and an international convention against torture, for which the United States is a signatory. A year later, McCain supported another bill, called the Military Commissions Act, which again made it a clear criminal...
...HRTV is open to everyone, and anyone can access it,” she said. According to Koenigs, creating a broad-based video-sharing Web site has been a goal of HRTV for some time. The group hopes CrimsonClips will both expand HRTV’s scope and help archive visual arts performances and events at Harvard. “We want to capture the Harvard experience; we’re losing so many great events,” he said. “The curtain goes down, and you never see them again. But if they?...
Indeed, if Beijing was caught flat-footed by the scale and scope of the Lhasa protests it has been equally unready to change its policies on the human rights front, despite knowing almost from the day the Games were awarded to Beijing in 2001 that hosting the Olympics would shine an increasingly bright spotlight on its dismal rights record. On April 3, activist Hu Jia was sentenced to three and a half years' imprisonment after being found guilty of "inciting subversion of state power." Prosecutors had advanced as evidence essays he wrote linking the staging of the Games with human...
...some experts because the ethical rules that bind U.S. attorneys have no force in India. "Lawyers are being seduced by the business end of outsourcing and are not being concerned enough with the ethical issues it's raising. I'm deeply troubled that outsourcing companies do not understand the scope of a lawyer's duty to confidentiality, nor are they familiar with conflict-of-interest rules," says Mary C. Daly, dean of St. John's University School of Law in New York City...