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While the U.S. remains at the forefront of science education and research worldwide, American innovation in science and technology??and the economic prosperity that accompanies it—may be eclipsed by that of other countries if this trend continues, according to “Rising Above the Gathering Storm...
...Center for Public Integrity (CPI), a public interest group. On the CPI’s website, Harvard was 540th in a ranking of amounts spent by companies and institutions on lobbying government officials in Washington. The CPI website’s profile on Harvard listed “Science & Technology?? as the school’s top issue, the University having filed 38 reports of lobbying on this issue in the past six years. This is a common practice for institutions of higher education hoping for research grants, according to Alex Knott, political editor for the CPI. Harvard...
...federal restrictions limit embryonic stem cell research to cell lines created before August 2001, mainly because opponents of such research claim that traditional methods of creating cell lines require the destruction of embryos. Such a process, they say, is equivalent to murder.The method used by scientists at Advanced Cell Technology??a biotechnology company based in Worcester, Mass.—takes one cell from a developing embryo when it is at the eight cell stage and uses this cell to create a new stem cell line. The remaining seven cells retain the ability to implant into the uterus...
...work with our manufacturers so that we are building the right sized walls, doors, and corridors to keep up with what is currently being developed on the market.” And just to be safe, additional unused space has been set aside just in case a breakthrough in technology??such as the development of therapeutic nanotechnology—comes while the building is still being constructed. As most of the cardiovascular services move out into the new facility, unused space in the main Brigham and Women’s building will be used to restructure other services...
...there’s not one central guide to Scientology. Instead, members read over 200 books by Hubbard, listen to thousands of hours of audiotape, and watch many DVDs and videos. (Scientologists believe in the infallible truth of Hubbard’s teachings, which are called “technology?? or “tech...