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...India's most surreal dramas. The border between India and Bangladesh, drawn in haste just before India's independence in 1947, snakes through Panidhar. It runs right in front of the modest, thatched-roof home of Fazlur Rehman, 50, the village's unofficial headman. His younger brother lives next door - in another country. "His child, my child are the same," Rehman says. But in Panidhar, the children violate international law every time they run around the small patch of mango and betel-nut trees. A few hundred meters away, Indian and Bangladeshi border guards patrol on each side...
...retailer in town, owns many of the stores, including the new emporium, and also runs a wholesale-distribution business to supply them. Getting in to see him is hard. A security guard wants to know whether we are American spies. Petrov's deputy, Viktor Denisov, nervously locks his office door when he crosses the corridor to see his boss. Petrov is deliberately cagey about business prospects. Yes, an economic crisis is now raging, "but this is not the first time we've had one," he says. Indeed, back in 1998, Denisov says mysteriously, "it was a crisis that helped...
...biomedical research in general and HIV specifically is a lack of an interdisciplinary approach,” Ragon said. “Everything is done in small isolated labs that don’t communicate.” Walker attacked this problem using what he called “door-to-door salesmanship” to recruit a wide range of local talent. He sat down with engineers and scientists in other fields—ranging from basic immunology to chemical engineering—and explained that if they were willing to refocus their efforts on AIDS research...
...Livio is most successful in communicating a deep respect for the power of mathematics and the intellectually rigorous theory behind it that many will never understand. By opening the door to mathematical theory, “Is God a Mathematician?” casts doubt on the absolute truths of arithmetic and geometry that are taught in school and brings Livio one step closer to making enthusiastic readers appreciate the wonder and sophistication of abstract math...
...silk screening, music, and video. The exhibit as a whole provides visitors with a new sort of intellectual engagement distinct from lectures and paper writing, asking students to think beyond their concentration or what they’ve come to regard as the norm at Harvard.Upon opening the heavy door to the Sert Gallery, viewers could stare into the face of Dorothy L. McLeod ’12, standing in her dorm room with a shadow on her face. The photograph entitled “The Skies are Different Here,” by Alissa C. Costello...