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...Europeans closer to the E.U. institutions that govern them in distant Brussels, the direct democracy experiment allows citizens to sling their concerns onto the E.U. agenda. The principle is simple: if campaigners muster 1 million signatures for a proposal, they can ask the European Commission, the E.U.'s executive branch, to write new legislation. "This is all about taking the E.U. outside of the Brussels beltway and giving it full democratic expression," said Maros Sefcovic, the E.U. commissioner in charge of putting the proposal into place. "The E.U. often stands accused of complexity and detachment from its citizens. Fostering...
...Harvard activists comprised one branch of an April Fool’s Day campaign involving pranks by AIDS activist groups in New York, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, and Florida—all coordinated by the national AIDS and human rights activist group Health Global Access Project. HAC, accompanied by alumni and students from Harvard Medical School and Boston University, rallied in Bowdoin Square in front of Sen. Kerry’s office before going in to present the check and discuss AIDS funding with Sen. Kerry’s Foreign Relations staffer Chris Wyman...
...selection committee for Harvard’s branch of the national honor society reviewed undergraduates’ grade point averages and then invited high-ranking students to apply for induction. The application includes two letters of recommendation from students’ professors...
...July 2009, experts at the International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon—the cancer branch of the World Health Organization—published in the medical journal Lancet Oncology their research stating that tanning beds and other sources of ultraviolet radiation are causes of cancer. Tanning beds are now considered to be as deadly as arsenic and mustard...
...Traditional Chinese medical theories have long extolled the health benefits of tonics and poultices made from rare animal parts, including everything from bear bile to deer antlers. Among enthusiasts for this esoteric branch of traditional medicine, few animals are more treasured for their nutritive qualities than the tiger. Tiger bone wine - a rice alcohol brewed in a vat with the carcass of one of the cats - is prized as a tonic for fatigue and sexual potency, for example. In an effort to clamp down on the lucrative poaching industry that sprung up around the big cats, sales of tiger parts...