James Watson Quits Post After Remarks on Races
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The biologist had ignited an uproar with comments about the intelligence of people of African descent.
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Nobel prize winner James Watson, renowned for describing DNA's structure, quit on Thursday as chancellor of a leading U.S. research facility after being quoted as questioning Africans' intelligence.
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James Watson embroiled in fresh controversy over assertion that black people are less intelligent than whites.
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A prominent New York scientific laboratory suspended Nobel Prize-winning geneticist Dr. James Watson on Thursday night over racially insensitive comments he was quoted as making in a newspaper interview earlier in the week.
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The Nobel prize-winning biologist who caused a furor with comments about the intelligence of black people resigned Thursday from his longtime post at a renowned research lab.
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A Nobel scientist who claimed Africans were less intelligent than Europeans quits a US research institution.
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Our position is: Politics trumped ethics in the House GOP vote to drop its no-indictment rule for the majority leader. When he was admonished by the House ethics committee last month for holding a golf fund
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James D. Watson, who won the Nobel prize for helping decipher DNA, apologized âunreservedlyâ Thursday for comments reported this week suggesting that black people, over all, are not as intelligent as whites.
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Interpol head Jackie Selebi quits after being suspended as South African police chief over corruption allegations.
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The Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth, a native of Birmingham, says he is resigning from his position as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
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Henrietta Holsman Fore, who was nominated to replace the deputy secretary of state for foreign assistance after he resigned in late April over an escort scandal, made racially charged remarks about the work ethics of blacks, Hispanics, Asians and whites two decades ago, prompting two key Democratic...
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Jaguar have announced that they will pull out of Formula One at the end of the year. Joe Greenwell, company chairman and chief executive, said that revealed financial reasons were behind the company&#39;s decision to end interest in the sport.
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Nobel laureate biologist Jim Watson apologized "unreservedly" Thursday for stating that black people were not as intelligent as whites, saying he was "mortified" by the comments attributed to him.
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A blogger hired by the John Edwards presidential campaign quit amid criticism that she had posted notes that were critical of the Catholic Church.
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Â· Statement of support for London incumbent  Â· Rival Johnson criticises 'divide and rule' politics
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Incoming EU Commissioner Rocco Buttiglione should resign or be stripped of some of his powers, Neil Kinnock said today. Mr Buttiglione has thrown the new Commission
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Media & professional: A senior executive at InterContinental has resigned after misleading the company over his academic qualifications. By Graeme Wearden.