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...chocolate market - that honor goes to the U.S. company Mars-Wrigley and Britain's Cadbury - they are widely considered among the best and most competitive in the world. "Switzerland's image sells well abroad, and nothing says 'Switzerland' more than chocolate," says Stephane Garelli, director of the World Competitiveness Center at the Institute of Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne, predicting that this comfort food will continue to sweeten the sour economy for months to come...
...Harvard University Native American Program has appointed Shelly C. Lowe as its new executive director, effective beginning in July. Lowe is a member of the Navajo Nation and is currently an assistant dean at Yale College and the director of the Native American Cultural Center at Yale University. Carmen Lopez, also of the Navajo Nation, was the last HUNAP executive director, and her departure last year prompted a national search for her replacement. Associate Director for Recruitment and Student Affairs Steven Abbott has assumed the duties of the HUNAP Executive Director for the past year, according to Bryant Bonner...
...number of years, “the yelling doesn’t get us anywhere,” said panel participant Timothy C. Weiskel, co-director of the Climate Talks Project and instructor in Harvard’s division of continuing education. Panelist William R. Moomaw, director of the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy at Tufts’ Fletcher School, said he attributes the slow speed of environmental policymaking to differing expectations from international actors. While China continues to make monumental strides towards a greener society, its neighbor, India, has not made significant improvements, he said. The panelists...
...kind of interactive art that is more like a puppet piece—the ones where you see it and you wave your arm and something moves on a screen,” says Judith Donath, Director of the Sociable Media Group and a Faculty Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. “People look at ‘Metropath(ologies)’ more as an artwork than as an object that you try to figure out how to do something with it, how to manipulate it.”The installation is a multi...
...With secular and nationalist parties, like the newly established Greater Indonesia Movement Party and the party of retired Suharto-era General Wiranto, taking the majority of the votes, Indonesian voters appear to be moving toward the center and abandoning parties based on religion, observers say. Grappling with the global economic crisis and considerable challenges at home, a majority of Indonesians have once again shown that they do not want religion leading the national agenda. "Voters have become more pragmatic and rational as opposed to ideological," says Hasibuan...