Animal Rights: NIH Cat Sex Study Brings Grief to New York Museum

Policy: NIH to balance sex in cell and animal studies.

US National Institutes of Health (NIH) established the Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH). At that time, the Congressional Caucus for Women’s Issues, women’s health advocacy groups and NIH scientists and leaders agreed that excluding women from clinical research was bad for women and bad for science. In 1993, the NIH Revitalization Act required the inclusion of women in NIHfunded clini...

Challenges to born-digital institutional archiving: the case of a New York art museum

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to highlight the challenges to born-digital institutional archiving, using a New York Archive Museum (NYAM) as a case. Design/methodology/approach – The digital record keeping practices at NYAM were studied using three data sources: a) focus groups with staff, totaling 81 individuals, or approximately one-third of all staff, b) analysis of network file sto...

Mining and Environmental Degradation: a Gift Brings Grief Scenario for Mining Communities in Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone is blessed with abundant natural resources but yet prone to environmental degradation due to the mining operations. Most often, the mining communities are faced with social tensions, as a result of the possible trade-off between the expected employment impact and the cost of mining operations to the environment. Over the past decades, the contribution of the mining sector to the de...

The "animal rights" movement's cruelty to humans.

Animal rights protests build

Opposition to animal experiments in Britain appears to be extending beyond the labs to other businesses supplying them. Nigel Williams reports.