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...full democracy is already long past, and that any attempt to delay it is demeaning. Earlier this month, a group of democrats led by Chan unveiled a compromise proposal that would gradually implement universal suffrage. It's hardly a radical blueprint, and it dovetails with Tsang's own target of achieving full democracy by 2012, when his new five-year term will end. The response out of Beijing to Chan's plan, however, was anything but welcoming. Chen Zuo'er, the deputy director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, was at pains to stress that it was Beijing...
...very odd book, a rattlebag of art, mathematics, music, philosophy, symbolic logic, computers, genetics, paradoxes, palindromes and Zen koans among many, many other things. Most of it went way over my head--my precocious older sister, who later became a mathematician, and even later a sculptor, was the real target audience--but it was playfully written and deeply weird and off-the-charts smart and generally just the thing for a household of pretentious, alienated adolescents to chew on. My siblings and I weren't especially close, but we always had that book in common: it was our secret shared...
...does this matter? Because, say Eric Cadora and Charles Swartz, who run the Justice Mapping Center, if you can pinpoint the few-block area that produces the most criminals, you can create programs that specifically target the problems of the people who live there and help them avoid the behaviors that land them in jail. That, in return, could save millions of dollars. New York State spends $42,000 an inmate a year. Multiply that by the number of prisoners who grew up on the same streets in parts of Harlem, the Bronx and Brooklyn, and you get what Cadora...
...shoot for a target of balance that mirrors the demographics of the K-8 population,” Walser said. “That definition of balance I think is somewhat out of whack with the demographics of young families seeking to get into kindergarten...
...long the embryo must be exposed to these high glucose levels to be affected, according to Florence M. Brown, who is the co-director of the joint Joslin and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Diabetes and Pregnancy Program. “It is unclear how long the target tissues must be exposed to high glucose levels for birth defects to occur, or if transient spiking of blood glucose is enough,” wrote Brown in an e-mailed statement. Brown added that because the experiment was conducted on mice, the relationship between Glut2 and human birth defects is also...