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...Cheney swipe may have been made by Dean of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, Nicholas B. Lemann ’76, a former Crimson president. But I couldn’t tell, sitting in the “media only” back...
Recognition of malaria's toll on the global economy is growing. Economist Jeffrey Sachs, director of Columbia University's Earth Institute, estimates that countries hit hardest by the most severe form of malaria have annual economic growth rates 1.3 percentage points lower than those in which malaria is not a serious problem. Sachs points out that the economies of Greece, Portugal and Spain expanded rapidly only after malaria was eradicated in those countries in the 1950s. In other words, fighting malaria is good for business--as many companies with overseas operations have long understood. By the end of this year...
Greenwald also interviews a kennel of liberal media watchdogs, but does not include, say, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism Dean Nicholas B. Lemann ’76 (also a former Crimson president), who has offered a more tempered view of Fox’s problems. How are slanted statistics and experts like these any different from those used on “The O’Reilly Factor?...
...findings that emerged from a study of 30 years of stress research published last week in Psychological Bulletin, a journal of the American Psychological Association. In a meta-analysis of more than 300 studies involving some 19,000 subjects, psychologists Gregory Miller at the University of British Columbia and Suzanne Segerstrom at the University of Kentucky combed through thousands of pages of research in search of common threads...
...Chinese and an equal number of South Asians now living in Canada, the two groups constitute half of the country's visible minority population and account for nearly 60% of its new immigrants every year. So the Conservatives, who won 99 seats, ran candidates like the Grewals in British Columbia this year, and the New Democrats (19 seats) aired TV spots featuring their multilingual party leader, Jack Layton, stumping in Mandarin and Cantonese. All in all, a record number of 28 South Asians ran in the election, and a total of nine Indo-Canadians and two Chinese Canadians won seats...