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...Mullainathan, who is a development economist. Besides encouraging students to look for summer opportunities in “action research,” Mullainathan also encouraged students to take a more active approach to their term papers and theses by “going out into the world and collect[ing] real data.” Action research refers to the use of clinical trial methodology to evaluate the effectiveness of programs in the field. Action research studies also focus on tailoring programs to better reflect the local culture. For example, in rural India, where income is determined by crop...
...vast data streams. We can use tools to help navigate our way through the masses of information. But our current tools are crude, and the flood of data gets more overwhelming all the time. The “Daily Me”—a roll-your-own collection of news from the sources we’ve learned to trust—has already arrived in some respects. Services such as MyYahoo let us collect on one page the latest headlines from a variety of news organizations and others. Using a technology called Really Simple Syndication...
...permitted, except to preserve the health of the mother.” However, most of the few women who seek the dilatation and extraction procedure do so out of great need. Abortion can be a cripplingly expensive operation, particularly for poor, uninsured women, and many are unable to collect the funds needed before their 20th week. Women who live in states where abortion access is severely limited often cannot find transportation. Teenagers may not realize they are pregnant or might be afraid to tell their parents before the pregnancy becomes obvious. Outlawing the dilation and extraction procedure will...
...week every six months and read hundreds of papers from people who are telling me about big advances, and their ideas about things they think we should do. Take a simple concept. You're a parent and your kid is growing up. How do you collect all the photos, email, video, calendars- all those things-and make it so that sharing it with relatives or going back 10 years later and finding some neat moments are very easy to do? Obviously today's software lets you do that better than you could 10 years ago, but it's still very...
...says. In her closet, designer gowns from Dolce & Gabbana and Roberto Cavalli hang next to one-of-a-kind abayas. The dresses are for weddings (at which men and women are segregated), and the special abayas are for covering up at the moment when the groom arrives to collect his bride. Each wedding abaya is designed to emphasize the cut and curves of her dress and the diamonds on the jewelry she's wearing...