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Waldman remembers Summers' enthusiasm as they worked late one night on a speech Clinton was to give at a conference in Geneva two days later. A line in the speech mentioned how the global economy should lift people...
...measured delivery of an academic, which is no more than you would expect from a man who used to be a high school principal and wrote his doctoral thesis on Nietzsche. But as the leading Islamic thinker among Europe's second- and third-generation Muslim immigrants, the Geneva-based university lecturer also inspires a good deal of mistrust--from both Arab Muslims for his Western sensibility and Westerners for his controversial Islamic roots. Ramadan, 38, is the grandson of Hassan al-Banna, founder, in 1928, of the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamic revival movement that spread from Egypt throughout the Arab...
...idea came out of left field. Electrical engineer Ronald Nutt and physicist David Townsend, working at the University of Geneva in Switzerland, had just taken the cover off their newly developed metabolic-imaging machine and were admiring its innards when an oncology surgeon happened by. "You have a lot of space between those detectors," he offered. "You ought to try to put something in there that would be useful...
After refining their combined PET and CT concept for three years, Nutt and Townsend, who had transferred from the University of Geneva to the University of Pittsburgh, received a three-year, $1.5 million grant from the National Cancer Institute in 1995 that enabled them to complete a prototype machine. Installed at the University of Pittsburgh medical center in 1998, it has been used successfully to scan some 200 patients...
...Israeli troops not to open fire and of the ambulance driver trying to rescue them. Many of those wounded in this conflict, including children and medical personnel, have been injured in the head and upper body, which may indicate that they were specifically targeted--another act forbidden by the Geneva Convention...