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That is why Iran's arriving at the threshold of nuclear weaponry is such a signal historical moment. It is not just that its President says crazy things about the Holocaust. It is that he is a fervent believer in the imminent reappearance of the 12th Imam, Shi'ism's version of the Messiah. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been reported as saying in official meetings that the end of history is only two or three years away. He reportedly told an associate that on the podium of the General Assembly last September, he felt a halo around...
...meeting last night to appropriate a $1.3 million-dollar gift from Harvard for the Harvard Square Enhancement Project. The city’s project, which faced funding difficulties, aims to make the Square more pedestrian-friendly. Harvard’s gift will help fund the installation of a walk signal by Johnston Gate and sidewalk and street enhancements by the Lampoon castle and on Palmer, Winthrop, and JFK Streets. Councillor Henrietta Davis joked that she was happy to praise Harvard for a change. “This is a really important pedestrian project,” she said...
...fundamental types of processes that can take advantage of this type of experiment,” said Ji Yu, a research scientist that worked with Xie on the study. The researchers were able to observe the protein production process by using fluorescent markers that will signal protein production. This enabled them to observe under a microscope a live cell expressing individual genes, and to count the protein molecules one by one inside the cell. Using this new technology, Xie created a movie of the gene expression process. Xie’s study was funded in part by the prestigious National...
...Riots at the World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle signal a backlash against free trade...
...Unless you count counterfeit software as Microsoft products, that claim is absurd?nine out of 10 personal computers sold in China come with pirated versions of Windows, according to the U.S. Commerce Department. But Beijing may have been sending a deeper message to Washington. The signal (as one Western diplomat put it): "We've got our own antiglobalization, antitrade zealots to deal with, so how about you keep yours under control and we'll do the same, because otherwise we're both in trouble...