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...three panelists—MIT President Charles M. Vest, Harvard School of Public Health Dean Barry R. Bloom and former Secretary of the Air Force Sheila E. Widnall—said they fear that new regulations on research projects and scholarly publications will stymie important progress across the scientific community...
...Vest said “the balance between security and openness in research and education” was the subject for his annual report last year...
...Friday night’s panel, Vest spoke on a variety of issues that have arisen between national security priorities and the responsibilities of a research university, ranging from foreign students’ recent problems securing visas to government restrictions on certain research projects...
...Vest, who formerly served as chair of the Association of American Universities and is presently on the U.S. President’s Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology, emphasized the value of homeland security...
...jewelry, and be amazed by the different ways Titian handles it. You can look past Bacchus' right knee and enjoy the view of a far-off city and misty mountains. Or you can side-step the central struggle of Tarquin and Lucretia and examine the rapist's brocade vest, an illusion created by indicating the pattern in some areas then scribbling in others. Lucretia's Violation is safely fictional, but the image, painted for Philip II of Spain, is still shocking. Jaffé sees no conflict between such scenes and Christian works, instead tracing echoes between the despairing gestures...