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...sharpest reaction thus far to the recent decision to put the brakes on the University’s planned expansion into Allston, two professors in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology have considered leaving Harvard, fearing that fallout from the slowdown will harm their research.The University’s plans to deal with the slowdown by re-assigning MCB laboratory space to the stem cell researchers who were originally slated for Allston has raised concerns that basic biology research is being de-prioritized in the current financial crisis, according to several professors contacted by The Crimson last week.Those concerns...
Last week, President Obama nominated Ashton B. Carter, the Ford Foundation Professor of Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government, to become the new director of weapons procurement at the Pentagon. Carter, who has been an outspoken critic of wasteful and excessive defense spending, brings an already-impressive resume to the position, having served as assistant secretary of defense for international security during the Clinton administration. We applaud Obama’s wise selection and hope that Carter’s nomination signals a major change in the Defense Department’s procurement policy. The selection...
...dying person's hand. "If the equipment was purchased by the dying person and the only thing the group did was provide a manual on how to do it, that seems very minimal and like it might fall outside the scope of [the law]," says Ani Satz, a law professor at Emory University...
Even so, escaping liability with its "compassionate presence" argument is a tricky maneuver. "The idea that they don't push a switch or administer a shot doesn't protect them from liability," says Russell Korobkin, a law professor at UCLA. "But I think it will be problematic to prosecute them for providing information, which is entitled to First Amendment protections. It seems that [Final Exit] is being very careful to stay on the right side of the line on this...
...Secretary of State Hillary Clinton makes her first official visit to the Middle East this week, the prospects for peace are bleak. But Shibley Telhami, a professor of political science at the University of Maryland and a leading U.S.-based authority on Arab-Israeli negotiations, tells TIME that a deal remains within reach. Clinching that deal, says Telhami, co-author of a new report on the U.S.'s role in the peace process for the Brookings Institution and the Council on Foreign Relations, requires urgent action by the U.S. because time is running out on the two-state option...