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...connected to the body?” Kuriyama approaches the body and its functions from a different angle than, say, the life sciences. “We are brought up in a certain way of looking at the body. We take science courses that take an objective approach??the cells, the reactions, but on the other hand there’s a less quantifiable way,” Xu said. “You see connections that you wouldn’t see if you just read texts of Hippocrates,” Xu said. This approach...
Mankiw kept the audience chuckling with cracks about his safe job as a tenured professor, references to Chapter 26 of his “favorite textbook,” and “the mafia approach?? of forcing banks to increase their capital stock, in which he supposed that the Treasury Department might say to an ailing bank, “You have a really nice bank here—I wouldn’t want anything bad to happen...
...improving existing, imperfect social structures. “Justice-enhancing changes demand comparative assessment, not any immaculate identification of the just society,” Sen said. Sen won the 1998 Nobel Prize in economics for his contributions to welfare economics. Sen pioneered the “capability approach?? for measuring a citizen’s social well-being, and his work has been included in the United Nations Human Development Report. In her introduction to the speech, Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan said Sen had earned the nickname “Mother Teresa of economics...
Looking back at his time at Harvard, Hudlin said that the VES department took a “very different approach?? than most film schools. “It made you strip all the artifice out of your projects, and that’s a healthy place to start,” he said...
...their emphasis on small donations—based on the innovative personalized approach??is working. Though it launched in 2004 with only $30,000 of “seed money,” the site has grown so popular that it raised $800,000 for Democratic candidates in a single day on March 31. By the end of this election cycle, ActBlue says that it will have channelled $100 million to Democratic candidates...