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...decision to support the ban should go a long way at the CITES meeting, but it doesn't ensure that the tuna will be protected under Appendix I. Any decision at CITES requires the vote of at least two-thirds of the represented countries, and while the European Union has voiced its support for the bluefin tuna, Japan remains very much against a trade ban. In the past - especially during the ongoing debate over commercial whaling - Tokyo hasn't been shy about using its generous foreign aid budget to leverage support from smaller countries. (See the top 10 most dangerous...
Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences will also see a new concentration in Biomedical Engineering following a unanimous vote at yesterday’s meeting. Bioengineering Professor David J. Mooney said that field is becoming increasingly relevant in the engineering world...
After some adjustments, the proposal was approved in a unanimous vote by the five members present...
...though, it is not the parliamentarians that make the final decision. Frumin's $170,000-a-year job is strictly advisory: he recommends, based on his expertise and the research done by his office on precedents, a course of action to whomever is presiding over the Senate - in formal votes this is the Vice President. But if the leaders choose to ignore the parliamentarian's advice, they do so at their own peril: rulings that aren't backed up are subject to challenge. "Whoever's in the chair does make the ultimate decision but that can be overruled...
...there will be a change in popular support," says Rafael Pardo, the Liberal Party's presidential candidate. Pardo believes traditionally Liberal voters who switched their allegiance to support Uribe will return to the Liberal Party. In any case, the candidates have precious little time to gear up for the vote. "It's clear the [debate over the term-limits] referendum did a lot of damage because it cost the electoral campaign almost a year of analysis, and a country as complicated as Colombia needs a lot of analysis," says Forero...