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...former U.N. Human Rights Commissioner Mary Robinson. A steady stream of leading diplomats has met with Nur to plead with him to attend international peace talks with Sudan's government. "Everybody has been to see him, anybody who thinks they can have any influence whatsoever," says a European aid worker, who asked not to be named. "People are really, really, really trying to persuade him." That's because the mass killing that has left some 200,000 civilians dead and more than 2 million displaced is occurring the context of a civil war that pits the government and its allied...
Lack of oversight means lack of policing, which often leads to underreporting of potentially fatal accidents. Labs are required by law to report mishaps with select agents immediately to the CDC, but that doesn't always happen. Case in point: Last year, a bio-lab worker at Texas A&M University became infected with the deadly brucellosis virus. The university did not report the case and may never have admitted it if an industry gadfly, Edward Hammond of the Sunshine Project, had not persuaded a local district attorney to strong-arm the university into giving up its internal records...
Gosling grew up in Ontario, Canada, the son of a paper-mill worker and a secretary. "I resented being a kid," he says. "I didn't like being told what to do. I wanted to be a man. I wanted to have an apartment and go on dates and pay for dinner and buy groceries." Gosling's teachers didn't find the antiauthority thing terribly cute, so when he was 10 his mom, whom he describes as Karin-like in her tenacity, began homeschooling him. At 12, Gosling auditioned for The All New Mickey Mouse Club, the 1990s revival...
...us”); genetic engineering (“Would I make people prettier? Yes”); and Sandel (“I just wish we could enhance him”). He advised students interested in science to avoid pursuing a science career simply “to be a worker.” “Don’t go into it unless you have a problem you want to solve,” he said. In an interview after the talk, Watson, a professor in the biology department from 1956 to 1976, addressed Harvard’s impending...
...constantly cleaned to sweep away Uganda's trademark orange mud. Yet several tents are erected each week around the cathedral to allow throngs of believers the chance to be included in the service via satellite screens. Casually perched on a fence near the cathedral's entrance, Ugandan development worker Chris Amwine gestures to the gathering crowd. Says Amwine, "This is how you're supposed to worship - we believe we should be together praying, not watching a service on television at home...