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...Research Building at Harvard Medical School has been named one of the recipients of the annual Merit Award for Design Excellence from the New England Chapter of the American Institute of Architects...
...individual state chapters within the New England Chapter rotate annually to host the Design Awards Program, and this year the New Hampshire Chapter selected 11 recipients from 271 entries...
...could go on - and readers who want to immerse themselves in the remarkably detailed pissing match can follow it on Climate Progress or the Freakonomics blog. But if you want my moderately informed take on SuperFreakonomics' climate-change chapter, I think Levitt and Dubner went into it with a contrarian mind-set, which saturated their interpretation of existing climate-change science. In doing so, they vastly underplayed the real risks posed by global warming...
...want to change. My approach is to start from the list of things I thought it would be a big mistake to change," he says. He is, after all, a Benetton. As he says of his own ascent to prominence: "I love to describe this as a different chapter of the same book." One that, his shareholders and his cousins hope, will have a happier ending than many other family empires that ran into trouble when the new generation took over...
Four years ago, economist Steven Levitt and journalist Stephen Dubner produced a sensation. Their book, Freakonomics, described how Levitt and a few other scholars used the techniques of economics to examine quirky topics and controversial ones. There was a chapter on cheating among sumo wrestlers, another on the profitability of drug-dealing, yet another on the possible link between liberalized abortion laws and falling crime rates - and much more (the subtitle was A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything...