Merrill Lynch and CSFB have barred research analysts from buying shares in companies they follow.
"We applaud the vision, generosity and confidence in MIT that this extraordinary gift demonstrates". A unique feature of the SRP is its flexibility: The gift's unrestricted funding is aimed at creating a "no holds barred" research environment that will inspire innovations in the field.
Attempting to push Bush in the opposite direction, a panel of the United Methodist Church this week urged the president, a fellow Methodist, to bar research using human embryonic stem cells.
This comes after various countries, notably Germany, have repealed laws that made it virtually impossible to do biotech research (by barring animal research, for instance).
Barring updated research, it's difficult to pinpoint exactly how common TSS is today, but the recently reported cases show that it's certainly not obsolete.
Barring a research breakthrough, those numbers will rise significantly by 2050, when up to 16 million Americans are projected to have Alzheimer's.
The rules mandate that the embryos would otherwise be destroyed, and bar research on the embryos themselves.
"I could go on and on about holes in bar research," he wrote in an e-mail message.
Dr. Roberts is now doing his bar research in Scranton rather than in Hoboken, and spent more than a year interviewing members of hard-rock, heavy-metal cover bands, researching the link between loud, aggressive music and bar violence.
I had explained that I wanted a young guide to help with bar research and when she turned up, I shouldn't have been surprised at her pink nail varnish, short skirt and general pulchritude.
