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...While professors decided to limit the audience for Faculty meetings, they discussed ways to combat the skyrocketing prices of scholarly journals in order to increase access to their ideas...
After investing $20 billion over 25 years and losing 30 lives in the development of the controversial V-22 tilt-rotor aircraft, known as the Osprey, the U.S. military might like to think that its long-awaited combat debut would go relatively smoothly. But even as 10 Marine V-22s have just arrived in Iraq, the Air Force - which is buying V-22s for special operations missions - has decided the gun on the Marines' version isn't good enough for an aircraft expressly designed to ferry troops into hot landing zones...
...Paul Farmer, Preseley professor of social medicine at Harvard Medical School, highlighted the good that Harvard is doing today to combat inequality, pointing to the valuable community service provided by the Medical School’s teaching hospitals. He also praised current undergraduates for being “involved in service and seeing the world...
...year after winning the Nobel Peace Prize for creating a bank which hands out tiny loans to rural Bangladeshis, Muhammad Yunus spoke about using microfinance to combat poverty...
...Nobel Committee has done its part, awarding Gore the Peace Prize for being "probably the single individual who has done most to create greater worldwide understanding of the measures that need to be adopted" to combat climate change, according to his citation. (The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was also a joint winner of the prize.) And so, after the obligatory spasms of celebration and the equally obligatory gnashing of Rush Limbaugh's teeth, will Americans finally get to enjoy one of the great spectacles in political history, as Gore's ultimate honor levitates him beyond his leading...