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...best intellectual case for this argument was made last year by Paul Samuelson, a Nobel prizewinner, a professor emeritus at M.I.T. and one of the most respected economists of all time. Samuelson took aim at the theoretical underpinning of globalization. For its proponents, globalization is the latest proof of the virtues of free trade, for which the case was first made in 1817 by the British economist David Ricardo. Ricardo argued that trade was always beneficial because it encourages nations to specialize in the products at which they are best and import those they are less good...
Jennie Mather left biotech company Genentech also out of frustration when, she says, her bosses wouldn't accept her approach to fighting cancer. She argued that what really counts in a target protein--that is, a protein that causes a disease and that a drug would aim to disable--is the protein's surface. Because a body's natural antibodies do their work entirely on the cell's exterior, she reasoned, drugs should work the same way. Such thinking was heresy to Genentech, whose scientists, she says, generally analyze a target's entire genetic structure. "They were just interested...
...ground where many senior leaders are interred, but Hu conveyed no message of condolence to Zhao's family. Hu instead spent the week launching a campaign to "consolidate the ruling status" of the Communist Party. His most significant comments in the days following Zhao's death were instructions to aim the campaign at the demographic group that had marched into Tiananmen Square in 1989. Hu warned in a speech excerpted under a banner headline on the front page of the People's Daily on Jan. 19 that China must "improve the political thinking of university students to elevate the Party...
...provocative and interesting” was his aim at the conference, and continues to be a hallmark of his leadership style...
Taken together, the committee’s recommendations reflect an aim to give students more flexibility to pursue interdisciplinary study and experiences abroad, as well as to broaden the scope of undergraduate education...