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...Jane Goody’s death, the idea of a funeral webcast over MySpace seems ever closer.The lifting of the ban is clarified with a clause that necessitates familial consent to film and photograph. This concession to privacy gives me hope that the lifting of the ban is a step forward instead of one backwards. Perhaps it will be those families who say “no” to the media that will truly catch the attention of an America that has forgotten what privacy means.—Staff writer Andrew F. Nunnelly can be reached at nunnelly@fas.harvard.edu...
...study’s results. “Something is happening within the first year or two of life that has long-term effects,” said Lo, who is also an assistant professor of nutrition at the School of Public Health. The next step for researchers, Taveras said, is to isolate the cause for the sort of rapid infant growth that can cause problems. “It could be overfeeding, it could be factors that arose before the child is even born, it could be genetics,” Taveras said. “We don?...
...Greytak on a surface physics experiment that required her to spend hours welding in the machine shop building a vacuum system.When she received an IBM Fellowship midway through her thesis work, she says she walked into Greytak’s office to ask if she should take the unorthodox step of interrupting her academic career for an internship in industry. “His reaction was kind of interesting,” Murray says. “He fell off his chair, and I thought, ‘Oh well, never mind that...
...case, the official shift in the treatment of Posada will most likely enhance the hemisphere's early optimistic mood about President Obama when he lands in Trinidad next week. "This will certainly be construed by Latin America as a positive step," says Daniel Erikson, a senior analyst at the Inter-American Dialogue, in Washington, and the author of The Cuba Wars. "The region sees the Posada case as one of the worst examples of a U.S. double standard regarding the rule of law, a subject we often lecture Latin America about...
...stimulus package is a step toward the realization of an economic growth plan unveiled by Aso on Thursday. His strategy aims to create as many as 2 million jobs and as much as $597 billion in domestic demand over the next three years, with additional gains though 2010. The country's leaders are beginning to realize Japan is on the wrong path. Its flagship manufacturing giants have been pummeled by the crash in worldwide consumer demand. Exports fell by nearly 50% year-over-year in January and February; the economy as a whole is expected to shrink...