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...when it recommended that Harvard sell its holdings in Beijing-based PetroChina. The oil firm has been accused of facilitating the ongoing genocide in Sudan’s Darfur region.But did the ACSR accurately synthesize Bok’s views? In an interview last spring, Bok declined to weigh in. “I never bite the hand the quotes me,” Bok said.WILL HE TURN BACK THE CLOCK?Despite last April’s landmark decision to divest from PetroChina, the University has maintained its investments in other companies linked to Sudan, including Sinopec, an oil firm...
Defenders of mandatory minimum sentences argue that the people—or their elected representatives—should be deciding how long criminals stay in prison. But O’Reilly’s politically motivated mischaracterization of the Cashman case illustrates the need for independent judges who can weigh all the facts and provide a fair ruling. Sentencing decisions shouldn’t be made in the political sphere, where ideologues like O’Reilly can use misleading stories to obscure the facts and whip up the public’s bloodlust...
...warning is unlikely. "We don't feel the risk is well enough established," said Dr. Laughren. But studies of the cardiovascular effects of these drugs are likely to get underway, and, given how many Americans are already taking them, they are probably long overdue. The FDA will also weigh a unanimous recommendation by the panel to make potential risks to the heart more apparent in the patient guides given out by pharmacies. That topic will doubtless come up for discussion next month when a pediatric advisary panel meets to discuss ADHD drugs...
...January 23 news article "HLS Profs Weigh in on Targeted Killings" stated that a 2002 book by Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz "drew fire from many civil libertarians because it advocated torture of terror suspects in certain instances." While critics of Dershowitz have made those claims, the article should have noted that Dershowitz' book, "Why Terrorism Works," does not recommend torture. And Dershowitz has stated publicly, including in The Scottsman newspaper in May 2004, that he is "personally opposed to torture...
...Pluto ? Charon ? If humans lived by Pluto time, they would never see a second birthday. The planet orbits the sun once every 248 Earth years ? And if humans lived on Pluto, they wouldn't have to diet. Pluto's gravity is so weak that a man weighing 300 lbs. (136 kg) on Earth would weigh just 20 lbs. (9 kg) on Pluto ? Unfortunately, breathing would be impossible. In addition to being intolerably cold, Pluto has a thin?and temporary?atmosphere of nitrogen molecules, with traces of carbon monoxide and methane. When the planet moves farther from...