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Indeed, what Ma describes as “a lab for interdisciplinary and creative work,” will now find its home in Allston, bringing to the vanguard questions of the place of arts in the neighborhood...
While the Democratic Party is also guilty of similar behavior, including the Democratic National Committee’s own, milder profligacy and the groping scandal of former New York Congressman Eric Massa, the Democrats do not profess to be the vanguard of traditional values and fiscal responsibility. For their own good, therefore, Republicans ought to urge the RNC to remove Michael Steele and replace him with someone better able to exemplify the qualities they wish to sell to voters...
...From Vermont, where veal and dairy farmer Abe Collins is developing software designed to help farmers foster carbon-rich topsoil quickly, to Denmark, where Thomas Harttung's Aarstiderne farm grazes 150 head of cattle, a vanguard of small farmers are trying to get the word out about how much more eco-friendly they are than factory farming. "If you suspend a cow in the air with buckets of grain, then it's a bad guy," Harttung explains. "But if you put it where it belongs - on grass - that cow becomes not just carbon-neutral but carbon-negative." Collins goes even...
...Without wishing to hyperbolize, this is undeniably a vanguard style, demanding fresh definition. Degustation menus from about $120. See www.mirazur.fr for more...
...there's a dilemma: policymakers want to foster cost-saving competition without killing the financial incentives that have put the U.S. biotechnology industry at the vanguard of medical science and without stifling the development of even more drugs that could save lives and eliminate suffering. Finding that equilibrium goes to the question of how long biotech firms should be guaranteed exclusivity, outside the protection of their patents, before copycats can begin using the data they have developed...