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...good at showing how a lot of new job creation comes through foreign investment, which is often the greatest driver of employment, technological progress, and benefits to consumers," says Ian Goldin, a vice president of the World Bank and co-author of a new book on globalization and development. Columbia University's Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel prizewinning economist, adds a further thought: nations, he says, want to pick and choose between bits of globalization that benefit them and those that don't. "We believe that exports are good but imports are bad," says Stiglitz, "we believe in trade but only...
...team that had to push its bus out of two feet of snow just to fence at Columbia a month ago, it was indeed the sweetest of endings...
...wasn’t like other boys.”As his gay identity grew, the young Kushner met with hostility from his father. “He didn’t want me to be gay. He wrote me a letter when I was a freshman at Columbia that said that he wouldn’t have been proud of Tchaikovsky [who was homosexual] if he was his son.”An outspoken critic of Israeli policy, Kushner has been subject to criticism from pro-Israel groups, especially in light of what some see as an unsympathetic portrayal...
...Again, Delany was lucky—he only had to fire his weapon three times. Four years had gone by since Delany had entered the force, and having gained the title of sergeant, he returned to the United States.Back in New York, Delany attended a general studies program at Columbia University for one year before transferring to Harvard. “I knew I had to go to school,” Delany says. But transitioning into a college lifestyle wasn’t easy for the vet. Being a few years older than the average sophomore, Delany is concerned...
...city treats it as a disease--providing free prescription-grade heroin in a research trial and running a medically supervised injection site--while carefully gathering data on the effects of city policies. At the heart of this experiment is Buxton, a physician-epidemiologist affiliated with the University of British Columbia medical school, who monitors the situation firsthand and meets several times a year with a committee of police, health workers, charities and support groups to collate their reports. "We're looking at the numbers of people affected, hospital utilization, deaths related to drug use and where interventions are needed...