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...response to student opposition, Harvard Medical School is backtracking on a recent policy that would restrict student interaction with the media, school officials said yesterday...
...dieters were encouraged to exercise regularly and received regular nutrition counseling throughout the course of the study. Regardless of the specific eating plan, the study's participants were required to restrict their daily caloric intake: 1,800 calories maximum per day for men, and 1,500 calories daily for women - a significant reduction from what the average American eats daily (about 2,600 calories for men and 1,800 calories for women, according to government statistics...
...iPhone to be released in China this year will come without wi-fi communications capability, a concession made earlier to comply with Chinese regulations that restrict the technology to promote the domestic WAPI standard. Those rules have since been eased, and Apple and Unicom are now hurrying to bring wi-fi phones to the Chinese market, Clark says. In the meantime, they may have trouble selling their hobbled models. "In my view, it will be a challenge to sell these dumbed-down models. Chinese consumers are savvy," Clark says. (See pictures of the best-selling cars in China...
...vote of 2 to 1, the panel ruled against Davis, and this is where the Supreme Court comes in. Numerous times since the 1996 law was passed, the high court has ruled that the limits imposed by the AEDPA are valid - when they restrict the lower courts. But the Justices held open their own prerogative to issue a writ of habeas corpus if so moved. In other words, the lower federal courts had no power to hear another word from Davis. But he could make his pitch directly to the Supreme Court. Prisoners have been trying for nearly 50 years...
...lease of life when, in late 2006, U.K.-based banker and arts patron Ilyas Khan bought out the publication. He restyled it as the ALR, publishing it under the umbrella of his Asia-focused literary publishing agency and film-production business, Creative Work. "We purposely decided not to restrict ourselves to Hong Kong," says Khan, previously a director of the Man Hong Kong International Literary Festival and a former Hong Kong resident who has a penchant for collecting rare editions of George Gissing and Henry James. "Our objective was to do things properly, on a much bigger, broader scale...