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...August conferences—which will enroll undergraduates, MBA students, and young professionals—will have slightly different focuses. The Business Conference centers on analyzing economic and business trends in the region. At the Academic Conference later in the month, students will discuss broader academic, political, economic, and social issues in the region...
...reason to delay. All three candidates vying for the White House have already called for shutting down Guantanamo. If that were to happen, some or all of the trials might have to be transferred to the U.S. mainland, and possibly even to federal courts, where the defendants would enjoy broader legal rights...
...contest is hoping to achieve—between the uninventive and the creative. Those involved with the contest seek to disrupt the creative stagnancy that stems from the monotony of mainstream hip-hop’s misogyny. Many people in both the contest and the genre’s broader community feel that while innovative music is being produced, it isn’t available from commercial radio stations or major labels. Thus, some critics argue that while hip-hop music has controversial lyrics, it doesn’t actually say anything...
...about a decade ago. The technology was originally conceived as a means to make food for astronauts to take on long space missions; in 2000, the first edible in vitro muscle protein was created from a goldfish by the NSR/Touro Applied BioScience Research Consortium. Soon after, scientists realized the broader applicability of the technology and began developing it to feed the rest of us earthbound folk...
...involvement in the developing world yesterday afternoon at the Harvard School of Public Health. Farmer, a professor of social medicine at Harvard Medical School, spoke alongside two other medical experts about the intimate connection between poverty and disease and the need for intervention at a much broader scope. “It’s not fair for people to be able to starve in the 21st century when there’s such affluence,” said Farmer. During the two-hour discussion, the panelists talked on topics ranging from gender equity in Rwanda to the controversy...