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When he chose to write his senior thesis on the Zimbabwean government’s manipulation of the media, Amar C. Bakshi ’06 never thought he’d be a target of the repressive regime himself.In late December, he traveled to the country’s capital to conduct research. But Zimbabwe’s Central Intelligence Organization alleged that he was “taking government information.” As he attempted to leave the country, intelligence officers pulled him off a plane and threw him in jail for five days...
...improvement on the current steroid-based treatments.“The current treatments are effective in most people with asthma, but they don’t cure people. They’re mostly aimed at symptom relief,” Umetsu says. “If we target NKT cells, better therapies are available.”Umetsu hesitates, however, to predict that an asthma cure is imminent.“I suppose if we figure out a way to eliminate NKT cells in the lungs, that might be a potential way of curing this disease,” Umetsu...
...total, roughly one-third of the $40 billion budget cuts over the next five years is being made on the back of the American student with 48 Department of Education programs scheduled for termination, the majority of which were designed to specifically target low-income, illiterate, and disabled children. Despite rhetoric from President Bush about the importance of education, his presidency has again and again undermined higher education in America...
...Islamic Courts were close to taking on the warlords when 9/11 put their campaign on hold. After the fall of the Taliban in Afghanistan, the Islamists laid low, for fear of being the next target in the war on terror. Rumors began circulating that the warlords had won backing from...
...fiery phrasing naturally makes Moulitsas an inviting target for the right. Among bloggers, he is probably most famous for his tactless response to the April 2004 video images of the corpses of American military contractors being dragged through the streets of Fallujah, about which he wrote, "I feel nothing... Screw them." While conservatives - and many liberals - criticized Moulitsas's intemperance, the controversy did nothing to slow the site's skyrocketing readership. Indeed, the incident gave him his trademark...