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...many individual investors hold GM shares either directly or through mutual funds that this will affect consumers who own a piece of GM. That was not an issue for Chrysler because it had no trading shares. The public had to watch GM struggle over the last two years to hold a price of $40, then $30, $20, $10, and finally just $2. The difference between Chrysler's demise and GM's is like the difference of a house burning down in the Wyoming wilderness versus a skyscraper on fire in Manhattan. Chrysler was never what GM was for many years...
...Africa or India. (The two suspected cases of swine flu in South Africa turned out to be false, and only one case has been confirmed in Asia, in Hong Kong.) Any concern in these regions has so far centered on sports: specifically, whether any new travel restrictions will affect the Confederations Cup, the international eight-team soccer tournament due to be played in South Africa in June, or the Indian Premier League, a new cricket tournament featuring players from around the world, now being played also in South Africa...
...digestible form, the performance is far from a physics lecture. “I’m not looking to impose them [scientific theories] on people,” she says, “but I’m looking at them more as a way to affect people on a visceral level, in a non-cognitive, aesthetic manner.” Now, with graduation fast approaching Videt says that while her plans might not be concrete, her goal is to start a theater company. She expects to work with several other current and former Harvard students that...
...make a concrete change in the world around him. “For the past couple years my work has revolved around the question: what impact does anything that I do have? The way that I’ve started addressing it recently is: what if I can affect the lives of the people who are working on the video with me and then preserve those effects in the final project? This project was a gift from me to Megan, from Meg to me, and also David. I think that what other people get from the film is important...
...human illness. Bjorn R. Olsen, an HMS cell biology professor and Dean for Research at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, said that translational research is, in some ways, the ultimate “goal of medical research.” “There are major diseases that affect not only people in this country but worldwide, and need to be addressed,” Olsen said. “Translational research doesn’t belong to any individual nation—it belongs to mankind—so creating partnerships across national boundaries, across oceans, across disciplines...