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...transition is occurring more than a year after the University announced plans to relocate the Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology Department to Fairchild in response to the slowdown in Allston construction, where a new Science Complex had been heralded as SCRB’s future home...
...rest of the international community. In order to restart peace talks, the Obama Administration has demanded that Israel freeze all settlement construction, in line with its obligation to do so under President Bush's 2002 peace road map. Netanyahu demurred, offering instead a temporary slowdown in West Bank settlement construction, but refusing to apply it in Jerusalem. The Palestinians claim East Jerusalem as the capital of a future state, and see Israeli settlement there - and in the West Bank - as reasons to doubt Israel's intent to conclude a peace agreement...
...slowdown was partly attributed the difficult economic climate. While China was able to grow at 8.7% last year, that healthy rate came at the expense of $586 billion in stimulus spending. Last week Premier Wen Jiabao said that government spending would grow more slowly this year as Beijing seeks to control inflation while maintaining stable growth. (See pictures of the making of modern China...
...Amid those economic demands, another double-digit increase in military spending might be seen as excessive. But perhaps the most compelling reason for the slowdown in spending is that Chinese officials have become more cautious of the way the development of the People's Liberation Army is perceived abroad. Last year China marked the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic with an Oct. 1 military parade in front of Tiananmen Square. While generally a cause for celebration in China, the parade of soldiers, tanks and missile carriers was seen as intimidating by many foreign observers...
...proposed cuts, when combined with a previously announced slowdown in campus construction, will bring the deficit down to $100 million, Levin wrote...