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...Failure to [evacuate] is a serious matter, potentially endangering the lives not only of those who fail to comply, but of those whose duty it is to protect them," Nathans writes in an e-mail message...
...arrest of Pinochet has reminded the world that the atrocities of dictators are not confined to one nation, but are a worldwide threat to fundamental human rights. If attempts to re-examine Pinochet's medical condition fail, he may still face prosecution in Chile, but his conviction there would be unlikely. Although the wounds from Pinochet's regime will never completely heal, Isabel Allende and many other Chilean citizens would be able to rest a little easier knowing that justice is finally being served...
Working for an Internet start-up sounds like it should be a win-win situation. Succeed, and rake in cash at a steady job; fail, and at least gain experience while having fun. So why don't more Harvard students take the plunge...
...seizures, the most common type of epilepsy. Until now, many patients had to take two or three types of medication--up to 10 pills a day--to keep seizures at bay. Trileptal can be taken in combination with other drugs or alone. And it seems to work where others fail. In one study, 25% of patients who were headed for surgery remained seizure free during 10 days on Trileptal. Side effects of Trileptal, such as fatigue, headache and nausea, seem to hit fewer patients than side effects of other current drugs...
Craig Venter has no shortage of rivals who would love to see him fail--especially among scientists at the Human Genome Project, the multibillion-dollar government-sponsored effort to map every one of our 100,000 genes. When the millionaire molecular geneticist announced in 1998 that his company, Celera Genomics, would do the job in a third of the time at no cost to the taxpayer (thereby making the Genome Project seem like a wasted effort), the scientific community was split into two camps--one group of researchers hoping he could make good on his promise, the other predicting...