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...world's most distinguished economists, a man who has guided countries from Bolivia to Poland through bad financial times, advised the Pope on Third World debt relief and helped launch the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and malaria. As head of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, he has tried to promote the idea that developing countries can protect the environment while improving the lives of their citizens. In writing The End of Poverty, Sachs has attempted to construct a new way of looking at the plight of the world's poorest people, who number more than 1 billion...
...FABRIC OF THE COSMOS By Brian Greene Quick, how many dimensions does space-time have? Answer: 11. Does time really flow forward? Nope. Is teleportation possible? Yep. Greene, a superstring expert who teaches physics and math at Columbia University, uses The Simpsons characters to illustrate the ground rules of a universe that is so much weirder than you thought. Result? Science that's as much fun as science fiction...
Princeton came out ahead, pacing the competition with 444 points after day one. Harvard’s 415 points were good for second place, and Columbia rounded out the top three, a distant third with 267 points...
Since Penn has already whisked away the Ivy crown (and Columbia has already levitated its basketball hoops), there’s a full non-consequential week left to discuss everyone’s favorite topic—the lack of an Ivy League postseason tournament...
...three teams are tied with 11-3 records? Most of the league cheered that result in 2002, when Penn, Princeton, and Yale each finished the season with that exact record. The excitement of the playoff atmosphere consumed the league. But what if Penn had found an extra point against Columbia during the league’s opening weekend. Likewise, what if Princeton had fallen to the Lions 49-48 on the final weekend of the season, rather than taking the contest by the same margin. It’s not hard to imagine a few bounces of the ball...