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...from the Harvard Kennedy School, as well as the Business School and Law School, Clem said. The researchers will focus on the scientific, economic, legal, and technical hurdles that accompany carbon capture technology. “Our hope is to draw on Harvard’s strength in this area, which is not only depth but breadth of expertise,” Clem said. Bank of America has been working with the Center for Environment since 2006, when it began supporting the “Future of Energy” lecture series. Since then, the bank has extended its funding...
...longevity gene called SIRT1, is known to perform two main jobs in yeast cells, according to Philipp Oberdoerffer, a pathologist at Harvard Medical School and the study’s lead author. He said that one job is to regulate certain gene, and another is to fix damaged areas of a cell. “You can’t wait for a bunch of proteins [to get to the damaged area],” so the protein is “recruited from its normal site to fix the damage, and then once it is done it goes back...
Cluster bombs explode in midair, releasing many smaller, grenade-like “submunitions,” which can blanket an area the size of a football field. Critics say this indiscriminate method of deployment and the potential for unexploded submunitions to remain in an area long after the end of a conflict, as land mines do, contribute to their danger...
...densely populated residential area of Jos, dozens of homes lay crumbling, and blood splatter stained floors, walls and the large peach-colored boulders between homes. Residents displayed three houses where they claim men dressed in army uniforms had killed eight, 11, and three people. Law enforcement officials had been given shoot-on-sight orders by the state governor and had used them. "The security that came to control the situation then started shooting randomly," says Alhaji Muhammed, chairman of one of the political parties at the heart of last week's contentious election. "Before the Army came...
...yards away from the sites of the terrorist attacks last Wednesday. He spent the next two days under curfew, and did not leave his hostel. There, he ate two meals in two days because supplies were cut off and no food sellers were willing to come to the area. “We’ve been holed up in this building for a couple of days now,” he said still under curfew on Saturday, describing what was a harrowing experience for a country and for Harvard students living in Mumbai.Earlier Wednesday evening...