NAACP Eyes Youth To Bolster Civil Rights Legacy
At the NAACP convention youth banquet in Houston college students photographed Reverend Run of Run-DMC and a spoken word piece on race. The next day gospel songs by a Baptist choir framed a shift toward a younger leadership as the group pursues its 600 plus youth councils and rising leaders like John Jackson, Roger Vann, and Roslyn Brock.
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Experts show lab assembled polio virus from Internet data
Washington reports researchers at University of New York Stony Brook used Internet data and ordered materials to synthesize a polio virus in the lab. They tested it in mice, producing paralysis and death, to warn that downloading genetic blueprints enables weaponizable pathogens. Cello and Wimmer said smallpox remains harder but potentially possible, raising renewed fear of biosecurity.
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White House Defends Bush Loans Amid Ethics Push
The White House defended President Bush's $180000 in low interest loans from Harken Energy in the 1980s, saying such programs were common to incentives but now should be barred to curb abuses. Bush did not profit, repaid via stock trades, and aides assert the issue centers on policies, not the president.
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