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...Davos, French President Nicolas Sarkozy blamed globalization for the financial crisis. However, what we need is more, not less, globalization—Michael Dawson, a political science Professor at the University of Chicago, devised the term “linked fate,” a concept in which interdependence, which is similar to globalization, is key to promoting group interests above individual interest. In determining public policy, powerful social concepts such as linked fate can be very useful for coming up with practical and sustainable solutions. To remedy the financial whooping cough Americans are going through, policy experts...
...dishes ("There's going to be peppery calves' tongue, two meat pastas with meat sauces - actually meat juices! - plus two rib-eye steaks") to his plan for compliance with HACCP, which every N.Y.C. restaurant is required to follow, for food safety. The man is cranked up. Even the concept of failure seems to be a tonic for him. "There are five ways for everything to go wrong, and I'm a little nervous, but that's exciting," he says. (Watch 10 Questions for Mario Batali...
...investigation following the Fort Hood shootings is a step in the right direction: the intention, plainly, is to give the concept of command accountability some teeth. Five to eight Army officers, some as highly ranked as colonel, are expected to face disciplinary action for mishandling the threat posed by Hasan, according to the Los Angeles Times...
Anna J. Murphy ’12 chose to explore thermodynamic entropy—or degree of disorder—from the perspective of an alien in a short movie, and Katherine A. Mills ’11 investigated the same concept through a set of two paintings entitled “Colorful Dots...
...truly authentic voices of young people today. "What the literary industry wants is a child genius. A 17-year-old girl telling stories about sex and drug excesses is much more interesting than a 35-year-old male doing the same thing. But this only works with a rigorous concept of intellectual property," Theisohn tells TIME. (See the top 10 fiction books...