March/April 2006
Terrorism and civil liberties
Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science Bruce Ackerman on the need for an "emergency constitution."
Political fight stalls cancer center
Nearly a year after it was submitted to the city for approval, a plan by Yale-New Haven Hospital (YNHH) to build a $430-million facility for cancer care and research remains stalled.
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The man who saved the freak show
Dick D. Zigun '78MFA is the founder of Coney Island USA, dedicated to "defending the honor of American popular art forms" such as fire-eating and sword-swallowing. |
Selling Sudan shares to protest genocide
Citing the growing consensus that the Sudanese government is supporting genocide in the Darfur region, the Yale Corporation voted to bar university investments in Sudanese government bonds and in seven oil companies operating in Sudan.
The soda-cancer link, debunked
Two years ago, researchers at India's Tata Memorial Hospital made headlines with their announcement that drinking soda might cause a dramatic rise in the risk of esophageal cancer. But Susan Mayne, a nutritional epidemiologist at the Yale School of Public Health, has put the kibosh on that assertion.
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