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...Elaine Liu contributed to the reporting of this story. —Staff writer Elaine Chen can be reached at chen23@fas.harvard.edu...
...measure research success according to impact on human welfare.” A letter to President-elect Drew G. Faust calling for “a more socially conscious technology transfer policy” at Harvard was also available for students to sign. Connie E. Chen ’08, a member of the Harvard branch of UAEM, explained in an interview afterward that while the connection between university licensing policies and drug affordability has not been widely discussed within the global health community, she was “astounded” by the eager responses from students, researchers...
...Junior inductees are Ronald K. Anguas, Konika Banerjee, Curtis K. Chan, Yuyin Chen, Megan E. Galbreth, Gaurav Gulati, Lewis D. Hahn, Alexander N. Harris, Kristen K. Hendricks, Seth P. Herbst, Sara K. Heukerott, Ryder B. Kessler, Julius D. Krein, Jeremy Landau, Roger R. Lee, Tiankai Liu, Katy R. Mahraj, Andrew B. Malone, Jason C. Murray, Genevieve E. Orr, Jay S. Reidler, Timothy H. Schmidt, Carolyn A. Sheehan, and Jordan D. Teti —Staff writer Jamison A. Hill can be reached at jahill@fas.harvard.edu...
Every so often, Taiwan's laid-back ancient capital, Tainan, has a media moment. In 2004, it came when President Chen Shui-bian survived an assassination attempt while campaigning for re-election in his native county. Last fall, the island's ravenous press corps lined Tainan's streets to greet another hometown hero, New York Yankees pitcher Wang Chien-ming, when he returned to spend the off-season with his parents. But the most recent development will likely outlast the next-day news cycle: the sleek new bullet train has arrived, opening up a southward escape route from scooter-choked...
...Some say this is the "real" Taiwan, and, indeed, a trip down from the capital requires cultural reorientation. Taxi drivers and shopkeepers speak the Taiwanese dialect instead of Mandarin, and politics here are decidedly "green"-the color of President Chen and his independence-leaning Democratic Progressive Party. Japanese tourists regularly visit, looking for scattered vestiges of their country's 50-year rule on the island, but Westerners have only trickled in, deterred by the four-hour-plus train ride or stop-and-start bus trip down Taiwan's congested west coast. That is expected to change now that the high...