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...brother John is Director of National Intelligence and delivers daily briefings to the President. But Nicholas Negroponte, 62, is trying to reach a far more challenging audience: the world's poorest children. The co-founder of M.I.T.'s Media Lab and former Wired columnist took a leave from academia last year to build a computer--a laptop so cheap that developing countries could buy them by the millions to help their kids leapfrog into the 21st century...
...feel personally the bite each term when we buy our sourcebooks. Many of these cost upwards of $100 not because they’re on paper rather than online (printing costs pennies a page), but because of the fees charged by publishers like Elsevier (1,387 journals ranging across academia) and Wiley (348 journals), some higher than $1 per page...
...surprised: The sight of Bill Gates speaking from the steps of Memorial Church to a sea of crimson would puzzle the Austrian economist and former Harvard professor. Schumpeter had predicted that entrepreneurs like Gates, though the lifeblood of a market economy, would only find hostility in halls of academia...
...said. Jeffrey Y. Kurashige, a third-year graduate student in pre-modern Japanese history who spent the day gathering signatures, said that the tenure denial seems to indicate that the University is not interested in Adolphson’s field. “The message this decision sends to academia as a whole is that Harvard doesn’t value history before contact with the West,” Kurashige said. Interim President Derek C. Bok, whose office holds the final say on University tenure decisions, declined to comment yesterday on Adolphson’s case. Bok has said...
...view is that most of this is nuts,” Atran wrote. “How is anybody in academia ever going to have as much as possible to offer in this whole mess—though people in academia keep complaining that the government doesn’t pay attention to serious scholars—if no one can even talk to the people most involved...