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...Development Minister Francisco Álvarez Cascos likened the project to those of the Suez Canal in the 19th century and the Panama Canal in the 20th century. But unlike those grand feats of engineering and technological prowess, the building of the Gibraltar Tunnel seems more like a symbolic endeavor that the world can do without...
...According to Iversen, another possible explanation for the gender gap is “statistical discrimination.” Employee training can be an expensive endeavor, and companies are fearful that female workers will take leaves of absence for maternity and child-rearing after the training process is over. That might make companies more wary of hiring women. “Controlling for career choices, I believe most of the gender difference in pay is due to statistical discrimination,” Iversen wrote in an e-mail...
...biggest challenge will be bringing the University together into a unified whole. Harvard has long operated under a decentralized system, with each faculty and school retaining broad autonomy. The result has been an institution dominated by individual fiefdoms and parochial interests and that is averse to interdisciplinary endeavor. Faust must break down these entrenched barriers—a move that will likely anger many. Luckily, Faust has a solid model to build on with the nascent Harvard Stem Cell institute and the recent creation of the first inter-faculty department.Faust must also deal with a recalcitrant and old-fashioned Faculty...
...question for us to disagree on this issue with our... soldiers," he said. He also indicated he would not seek the U.S.'s approval, which has opposed Turkish intervention in Iraq. "Turkey doesn't require permission from any country. Other nations should in fact support us in this endeavor," he said...
...Yale, for example, the number of medical faculty and affiliates is slightly more than 3,000. There, faculty members may be allowed to continue with basic research if “the likelihood of any distortion of the research endeavor is minimal,” according to the school’s official guidelines...