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...meeting with top U.S. scientists and stem cell researchers on Monday, President Obama signed an executive order that effectively overturns the Bush administration’s limits on funding for embryonic stem cells. The memorandum provides for an increase in federal funding of stem cell research, and should expand the number of cell lines for which researchers can receive funding. This move is both a departure from the policies of the Bush administration and a protection of what Obama has dubbed “scientific integrity.” As Obama said on Monday, “It is about...
...Longer-term requests from Menino include an inventory of the University’s property holdings in Allston not being used for institutional purposes, a report on the interim uses of such property, a memorandum detailing conditions under which Harvard may purchase more property, and an outline describing “the immediate development of a more active involvement of the university in the North Allston community...
...released a memorandum to universities affiliated with Russell on October 10, 2008, stating that the “university community faces an issue of serious and urgent concern,” as the athletics company showed hostility toward workers in their efforts to unionize, which are protected by university codes of conduct...
...Also in attendance was Dr. William Wilder, the physician for the Cleveland Indians. Wilder was so disturbed by the presentation that he wrote a memorandum to Indians general manager John Hart that whether testosterone increased muscle strength and endurance "begs the question of whether it should be used in athletics." Wilder also endorsed sending information to players about the "known and unknown data about performance-enhancing substances...
...Louisiana Republican Senator David Vitter chimed in with concerns about the Clinton Global Initiative, which he noted was not covered by the disclosure requirements of the memorandum of understanding, and could therefore become a place for anonymous fundraising. (Foundation spokesman Matt McKenna says the Global Initiative is, in fact, in the process of being incorporated separately from the charitable foundation.) Hillary Clinton pointed out that all sponsors of the initiative are publicly disclosed. When asked by Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey whether she had committed to continuing to disclose such sponsors in the future, Clinton said, "That's correct...