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...finished." The Cambridge lab dispute is just the latest front in the animal-rights movement's increasingly sophisticated battle to stop the use of nonhuman primates, dogs, cats, rabbits, rodents and other creatures in scientific and medical research. Without the new lab, its proponents say, the university's world-class neuroscientists will have difficulty staying on the cutting edge of research. But activists fear that this patch of English countryside will soon become the vivisection capital of Europe. Their argument - that experimentation on animals is cruel, unethical, irrelevant and unnecessary - is certainly debatable, but it is undeniably part...
...about public-safety dangers and unlawful protests" at the proposed university primate lab site, then declared: "We cannot have vital work stifled simply because it is controversial." Says Mark Matfield, executive director of the Research Defence Society and the University's expert witness at the appeal hearing: "Cambridge has world-class scientists. They need the facilities for them to work at that level." While the proposed lab has no links with HLS, SHAC is also taking a keen interest. "Do these people really think that we're going to let the largest primate-neuroscience lab in Europe be built?" Avery...
...American to Eastern European. The small room seats forty-five, and is walled by light-washed still lifes. Strains of light jazz can be heard floating above the murmur of voices. With warm bread and warm service and less-than-exorbitant prices, Salts surpasses its casual atmosphere and offers world-class cuisine...
...this was not “an obvious point” or focus of the forum discussion. Specifically, the forum was not a venue created to indict U.S. foreign policy initiatives; rather it was a student-organized roundtable discussion on how Harvard University, through its existing mission of promoting world-class research and sustained teaching excellence, can help alleviate the current public health crisis in Africa. Lack of existing primary health care infrastructure, continued political instability and cultural-religious stigmas against Western interventions are just a subset of the problems that have historically impeded many well intended international relief efforts...
Even with preferences given to lower-income students, it’s hard to turn down some of the world-class students who apply to Harvard, the admissions dean argues. And whereas other schools with lower yields can afford to admit a larger chunk than they expect to matriculate, Harvard has to narrow things down early, leaving it less room to work with...