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Maier Professor of Political Economy Benjamin M. Friedman '66 is rumored to be under consideration for the post of vice chair of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors...
...Jinsesh N. Shah, Danielle E. Sherrod, Merav Shohet, Shirin A. Sinnar, Sonja B. Starr, Rebecca E. Stich, Ellen H. Takata, Connie W. Tang, Gilbert H. Tang, Xiomeng Tong, Heidi S. Towne, Omri Traub, Miriam Udel, Katherine Unterman, Ellis M. Verosub, Jason W. Veysey, David M. Weld, Bradley L. Whitman, Benjamin Wilkinson, Hong Yu, Jong H. Yun, Shouyee Yung, Ian G. Zacharia and William M. Zerhouni
...gene helps regulate dopamine, a chemical messenger in the brain that mediates pleasure and emotion. Researchers have yet to figure out exactly how the longer gene affects behavior. What they do know, says Dr. Jonathan Benjamin, an Israeli visiting scientist at the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health and co-author of the study, is that "when a molecule of dopamine arrives knocking on the door to a cell, the cell reacts a little bit more strongly in the people with the long version...
Faculty members feel they are under economic pressure, torn between their mission of being teachers and watching the bottom line, said Dr. Benjamin Sachs, head of obstetrics and gynecology at Beth Israel and clerkship director for medical education at Harvard...
...Founding Fathers, as indicated in your story "Uncertain Beacon," may have expressed isolationist views, but many of the early patriots were vigorous internationalists. Benjamin Franklin said, "Our cause is the cause of all mankind." Thomas Paine, the fervently religious man who gave us the name United States of America, said, "My country is the world." Today that spirit is not just noble; it is imperative. CHARLES F. DAMBACH, Chairman Coalition for American Leadership Abroad Washington...