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...Louis Byington “By” Barnes, a longtime organizational behavior professor at Harvard Business School, died Aug. 22 at a hospital in Bangor, Maine, from complications from kidney failure...
...have the courage or the money to be treated take the pregnancy to term. Although the fertility rate has fallen considerably in Brazil (from 6.1 children in 1960 to about 2 today), 1 in 3 pregnancies is unwanted, according to Dr. Jefferson Drezett, head of the Hospital Perola Byington, Latin America's largest women's health clinic. Meanwhile, 1 in 7 Brazilian women between the ages of 15 and 19 is a mother, and the average age at which women have their first child has fallen to 21, from 22.4 in 1996, according to a government-funded study. (See pictures...
...aims to promote and lead research of Korean history, over a period from the Paleolithic era to the 1000 AD., in the western world. “It’s an area that has very little exposure in western academia,” said Mark E. Byington, the founder and director of the group. “That’s the challenge and that’s what I find most fascinating.” The workshops will begin with presentations on the Han Chinese military outposts in northwestern Korea, a subject that continues to inspire discussion almost...
...ethnic Koreans now live. Beijing apparently fears that if North and South Korea were ever to reunite, these Koreans might try to secede from China, reclaiming Koguryo as part of Korea. "It's possible that a unified Korea could make a claim to some of that territory," says Mark Byington, a Harvard postdoctoral fellow who is writing a book on early Korean history. To head that off, Byington says, China is flogging a flawed interpretation of Koguryo's history that is "obviously ideologically driven." Meanwhile, to fight the Chinese assertions, South Korea has set up its own research institute...
...EDWARD j. BYINGTON...