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...September, researchers at the University of Washington reported in the journal Nature that they had produced color vision in squirrel monkeys, which are normally born colorblind. Using a tiny syringe, researchers injected the single missing gene for color vision into the monkeys' eyes. The result was clear: monkeys that previously could not distinguish red, green and gray were easily able to pass a simian equivalent of a color-detection test. (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...
...study’s conclusions come less than a week after the heads of two major banks wrote editorial pieces in The Washington Post and the Sunday Telegraph calling for greater regulation and accountability in light of the financial crisis...
JPMorgan Chase CEO and Harvard Business School graduate Jamie Dimon wrote in The Washington Post on Nov. 13 that regulators should be empowered to liquidate assets and fire management when they see fit, so that individuals engaging in risky behavior will “feel the pain.” The next day, Barclays CEO John S. Varley wrote in The Sunday Telegraph that “incentives and compensation must be better aligned to delivery, must take account of risk, and must be paid out over time...
Media reports questioning the legitimacy of the organization go back as far as 2003, when the Washington Post reported that federal instigators were looking into the organization...
...leaders to signal their displeasure with the Iranian leader's regional hosts. President Obama wrote to Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on the eve of the visit, reiterating the U.S. position on Iran's nuclear program, and urging the Brazilian leader to back it. Washington's pique is hardly surprising, since the visit comes at a moment when the U.S. is seeking to rally an international united front to coerce Iran into limiting its nuclear ambitions. But the scolding seems less justified to many observers, given that the promise of engagement was a central theme...