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...news article "Bio-Research Funding May Drop" incorrectly identified M. William Lensch as a professor at Harvard Medical School. In fact, he is an instructor in pediatrics at the Medical School. “Stem cell research is only beginning, and there’s a long way to go,” she said. “It’s a crucial initiative that we fully support and will continue to support...
...award, Faust will receive $50,000, an engraved medal, and the title ‘American Historian Laureate.’ President Faust will receive the award at a ceremony April 3. This is the fourth year that the Society, New York City’s oldest museum and research library, has given out the award. The selection process begins with a jury of five people reading all the entries and deciding on finalists. From these finalists the jurors settle on one winner...
...undergraduate years at Washington University in St. Louis, before heading to medical school at Duke. The newly minted doctor then came to Children’s in 1983 to complete his training as a resident and fellow—and had not left since. The pediatrician’s research on substance abuse and environmental health brought him to Washington, D.C., where he testified before the Food and Drug Administration on the unproven value of cold medicines for children. In 2003, Shannon was named director of the hospital’s newly established Center for Biopreparedness, which is charged with...
...advisers or heads of agencies, no president has drawn such talent into his apparatus.” McCarthy was not alone in his acclaim for Obama’s Monday announcement, which consisted of an executive order lifting the ban on federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research. It also included a memorandum that authorized John P. Holdren, director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy in Washington and a Harvard professor of environmental policy, to issue recommendations on ensuring scientific integrity in governance. Several Harvard professors praised Obama for reopening funding and creating the framework for reforming...
...politician himself, like so many other Japanese leaders (including that other maverick, Koizumi) he entered the Diet when he was just 27. Michael Green, chairman of Japan research at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, who knew Ozawa more than 20 years ago, remembers him back then as a traditional politician "focused on bringing home the bacon" to his constituency in Iwate prefecture in northeastern Honshu. His mentors include both Kakuei Tanaka, Prime Minister from 1972 to 1974, who treated Ozawa like a son and arranged his marriage, and Shin Kanemaru, who served as Deputy Prime Minister...