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...knowledge is out there. Risk experts understand how we could overcome our blind spots and more intelligently hedge our bets. In laboratories and on shooting ranges, there are people who study what happens to bodies and minds under extreme duress. Military researchers conduct elaborate experiments to try to predict who will melt down in a crisis and who will thrive. Police, soldiers, race-car drivers and helicopter pilots train to anticipate the strange behaviors they will encounter at the worst of times. Regular people can learn from that knowledge, since, after all, we will be the first on the scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Survival Guide to Catastrophe | 5/29/2008 | See Source »

...Noida murders also reveal deeper flaws in Indian policing and the country's media. Critics have renewed calls for the press to conform to proposed legislation that would regulate journalistic standards, a bill the media has fought. Some experts hope that public outrage over the conduct of the investigation will build and ensure that the case gets transferred to India's Central Bureau of Investigation, which is expected to do a better job than the police. In the long run, India's police will need to clean up its act. However it is resolved, the Noida investigation could well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India's JonBenet Ramsey Case? | 5/29/2008 | See Source »

...Freedman said that CTSC will also be building CONNECTS, a sophisticated Web-based system that will provide access to information needed to conduct research projects...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Lands Major NIH Grant | 5/28/2008 | See Source »

...Prior to the CTSC grant, the University had been awarded four General Clinical Research Center (GCRC) grants from the NIH to conduct a wide range of clinical studies at academic health care centers, including Mass. General and Brigham and Women’s Hospitals, both of which are Medical School affiliates...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Lands Major NIH Grant | 5/28/2008 | See Source »

...Created in 1802 by Napoleon, the Legion's original mission of recognizing "outstanding services rendered to France or a feat befitting humanity" was intended to replace inherited aristocratic titles with an award earned for distinguished conduct. But many in France share Porte's view that a gush of entertainers has crowded out the monumental artists, philanthropists, humanitarians, and makers of history for which the award was originally intended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Celine Dion in Napoleon's Pantheon of Greatness | 5/22/2008 | See Source »

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