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...thing that the arrests are unlikely to do, however, is to stem ETA's violence. On Thursday in fact, Spain's Interior Ministry issued a special alert to Basque police forces urging them to "tighten precautions" in the face of likely attacks. ETA has a habit of striking after arrests in an effort to counteract the perception - especially among its own supporters - that it is weakened. "They'll compensate with a terrorist attack that will animate their base," says Dominguez. "After all, the arrests only affected the political wing, the military part wasn't touched. So they could attack...
...Mass. Gov. Deval L. Patrick ’78, who proposed it last year as a means to ensure the long-term competitiveness of Massachusetts’ vaunted life sciences industry. California, for example, which has a burgeoning biotechnology sector of its own, is devoting $3 billion to stem cell research over the next 10 years...
...Harvard’s west coast competitors in the biomedical sciences—Stanford and the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF)—have already received significant infusions from their state’s stem cell initiative...
...first round of awards last month, California gave $44 million to Stanford for its $200 million stem cell institute and $35 million to UCSF for its $95 million research center...
Because there is little federal funding available for stem cell research, Harvard’s own $100 million institute was funded largely with private funds...