The Histone Minority Report

The Histone Minority Report the Variant Shall Not Be Silenced

In this issue of Cell, Meneghini et al. demonstrate that replacement of canonical histone H2A with the histone variant H2A.Z within euchromatin prevents silent chromatin proteins from migrating into regions of the chromosome that normally are transcriptionally active. Thus, this highly conserved histone variant is critical for defining chromatin domains.

HIRWG Minority Report

The convening of, and the charge to, a Hurricane Intensity Research Working Group (HIRWG) by the NOAA Science Advisory Board (SAB) attested to the following assessments by the agency's leadership. First, the predictive tools available to guide operational forecasting of tropical-cyclone intensity need to be upgraded. Second, it is not clear that the current research activities in NOAA will furn...

Minority Equity Report - May 2005

Minority Report: Re-Reading Gilgamesh After Levinas

The Epic of Gilgamesh attempts to answer the question of how, given the finality of death, one might find meaning and happiness in life. Many commentators argue that the text provides two separate, although ultimately unsatisfactory, alternatives. What these commentators appear to miss, however, is the possibility that these two solutions may not be separate. Using Levinas’s distinction between...

Minority Language Policy and Planning in the Micro Context of the City: The Case of Manchester

This paper investigates service provisions in community languages offered by Manchester City Council and agencies working alongside to find out whether there is an explicit language policy in Manchester, how such a policy is formulated, how it functions, and how it is reflected in education. Data was collected through interviews with different personnel in MCC, focus group discussions with comm...