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...Copenhagen are still cloudy. How poor countries should be aided in adapting to climate change, how to prevent tropical deforestation and especially what level of emissions cuts developed nations will agree to are all issues that have yet to be resolved. "I'm getting mixed signals," says Kandeh Yumkella, director-general of the U.N. Industrial Development Organization, who was backstage lobbying politicians at the summit...
...which humanity has blossomed are more vulnerable than ever and that unless we recognize our planetary boundaries and stay within them, we risk total catastrophe. "Human activities have reached a level that could damage the systems that keep Earth in the desirable Holocene state," writes Johan Rockstrom, executive director of the Stockholm Environmental Institute and the author of the article. "The result could be irreversible and, in some cases, abrupt environmental change, leading to a state less conducive to human development." (See TIME's special report on the environment...
...from top administrators to departments, but also the other way around.“Cathy’s advantage is that people trust her implicitly and immediately,” said University Professor Gary King, who heads the Institute for Quantitative Social Science, where Gorodentsev once served as executive director. “That makes it easier for her to figure out what they are about and develop different organizational structures, reporting lines, or communication strategies to solve the problem.”NOT JUST KEEPING THE SEAT WARMPrior to her July appointment as interim dean, Gorodentsev served as chief...
...patients unless we start from the home,” Onie said. At Project HEALTH clinics, which Onie founded, physicians prescribed housing in addition to medication. “We really believe that there are wonderfully creative people in our midst,” said Daniel J. Socolow, director of the MacArthur Fellows Program. “They need time, opportunity, and space to really do their thing, and they know far better than anybody else how to do it.” For Huybers, whose work in climatology earned him the Fellowship, the award is an opportunity to further...
...Charles Eliot Norton Lectures have been a Harvard tradition since 1926, and are now hosted by the Humanities Center. As he delivers the five remaining lectures, Pamuk will spend time on campus, and will even hold office hours, according to Director of the Humanities Center and Professor Homi K. Bhabha. All the lectures are held at 4 p.m. in Sanders Theater, and are free and open to the public. The next lecture will be September 29, and the final lecture will be delivered on November...