Word: developable
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...advancement to “academic fields throughout higher education.” “Our goal as research universities is to create conditions in which all faculty are capable of the highest of academic achievement,” the nine presidents wrote. “Continuing to develop academic personnel policies, institutional resources, and a culture that supports family commitments is therefore essential for maximizing the productivity of our faculty.” The statement followed up on their 2001 pledge to establish “equity for, and full participation by, women faculty.” Summers...
...added.This weekend marks STAND’s third national conference. Georgetown’s chapter of STAND held conferences in February and August.Weldon W. Kennedy, a senior at Brandeis who is president of the school’s STAND chapter, said the idea for the conference developed when he met with Harvard students in October at the Darfur Fast day in Boston.At the conference, students heard from experts about the history of Darfur and its current situation.On Friday night, panelists described the pattern of rape and murder in the western region of Sudan. Andrew B. Loewenstein, a human rights lawyer...
Voltage provides encryption software to banks and health-care providers to safeguard financial and medical records. The company also works with government agencies and ran trials with the Department of Homeland Security and Department of Defense to develop secure methods of transmitting and storing government information more quickly and cheaply than current encryption systems allow...
Today Biddle's dream is finally taking shape--a mere 11 years after launch. MBA Polymers Inc. is the world's most advanced recycler of plastics used in durable goods. MBA raised $30 million to develop its patented technology for extracting and recycling plastic from trashed computers, printers, mobile phones, TVs, VCRs, fax machines, refrigerators, vacuum cleaners and other forms of e-waste. Biddle claims he can recycle "anything with a cord" and then some...
...Spain (or their geographical stand-ins), and it is full of derring-do and suspense. (Best such sequence: a child innocently answers a call on an explosive-laden phone meant to blow her father to kingdom come.) At more than 2 1/2 hours, Munich allows itself time to efficiently develop character, particularly among Avner's team, which is run--mostly from afar--by Geoffrey Rush's hard-assed executive spook. The assassins include a hot-blooded South African hit man played by Daniel Craig, who is the next James Bond; Ciaran Hinds as his opposite, a meticulous cleanup artist; Mathieu...