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Using the map, which showed America and Europe as brightly lit and much of the rest of world as dim or entirely dark, Podesta assessed differences between developed and developing world patterns of energy...
Parker says she felt the “obvious difference” at HAPA events, where students discussed East Asian identities and went out for dim sum, “which I enjoy, but don’t identify with culturally,” she says...
...Refusal to Kiss Up goes to ANNIE PROULX, 70, on whose 1997 short story Brokeback Mountain was based. After Brokeback lost the Best Picture Oscar to Crash, Proulx wrote a vituperative column in the Guardian, attacking the winning film (which she refers to as Trash), Hollywood types ("somewhat dim"), the awards event ("reminiscent of a small-town talent show" with "an atmosphere of insufferable self-importance") and even innocent bystanders Three 6 Mafia ("an atrocious act"), who won the Oscar for Best Song. She also lays into the Academy ("conservative heffalumps"). Yep, she used the H word. This could...
...personal. In 1990 Rice, 41, decided to join the company that made his diabetic mother's insulin. Says the Alabama native: "I know [now] Lilly is why I've had 24 years longer with my mother." His wife also works for the company. Lilly, whose prospects once seemed dim with the loss in 2001 of its patent for the popular antidepressant Prozac, expects a rise in earnings of up to 12% this year, led by new drugs such as Byetta--for diabetes. At the same time, Lilly has cut its workforce nearly 7% since 2004 and has plans to reduce...
...turmoil at Harvard surrounding the Summers’ resignation won’t dim Olupona’s homecoming...