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...model is the village of Sauri, a short walk from Odiambo's shop, where seed and fertilizer supplied by Columbia University's Millennium Promise has allowed farmers to reclaim soils that were depleted or weed-infested, expanding cultivated land by 50% and quadrupling maize production. Growers who struggled to feed their families now enjoy surpluses. Within three years, most could afford to buy the inputs themselves...
...comprehensive response to the new flu virus, H1N1 wasn't a true test of our mettle but a warning shot. "We should look at this as a wake-up call, not one more snooze alarm," says Dr. Irwin Redlener, the director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University...
...First, as it already seems to be doing, the College could cut staff from the Advising Programs Office, which has grown considerably in just the past few years. Associate Dean of Advising Programs Monique Rinere, who was hired from Princeton and is leaving for Columbia, is responsible for much of this aimless expansion. The College is making the right decision in keeping her position vacant. Likewise, at least three of the remaining seven members of Rinere’s department can be laid...
...Programs Monique Rinere will both be leaving their posts by the end of this year. Herschbach is accepting the voluntary early retirement package and will leave in the fall after almost three decades at Harvard, while Rinere will become Dean of Advising and Associate Dean of Student Affairs at Columbia. Their departures come in the wake of another senior College official’s departure, as Associate Dean of Student Life and Activities Judith H. Kidd confirmed late last month that she will also be accepting the retirement package, which allows staff over 55 years of age to voluntarily retire...
...dangerous as it can be to fly the shuttles, the agency has done a commendable job of getting the debris problem under control since the loss of Columbia. Cameras on the underside of the ship send back live streaming videos throughout the launch phase, allowing controllers to monitor any foam or other material that is shed en route. Analysis of Atlantis' tapes show a relatively small debris hit at the 106-sec. mark in the ascent - at precisely the moment skin sensors also detected a strike in the area in which the dings have been spotted. That area, at about...