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Hoping to fill a need unmet by the National Institutes of Health's grant system, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute will give $600 million to 56 U.S.-based scientists studying long-term topics like global warming's effect on the spread of disease and the genetic basis of smell. Researchers will be free to adapt their projects and follow up new leads without scrounging for funding, an approach the institute hopes will lead to major medical breakthroughs decades from...
Savannah's ability to balance imports and exports has been key to its rapid rise. Ship owners much prefer full vessels to empty ones. Savannah has been a raw-material exporter since the days of King Cotton, and its big challenge used to be finding enough imports to fill incoming ships. Port officials solved that by persuading the likes of Wal-Mart, Home Depot and Ikea to take advantage of ample vacant land near the port (something you don't find in New York or L.A.) to build distribution centers where they could unload merchandise from overseas and ship...
...feeding time at St. Kizito Hospital's malnutrition program. Children have been weighed and measured on the terrace, as they are every weekday morning, and now their weak crying and occasional shrieks fill the air. Mothers dribble formula into their infants' mouths, while older and stronger kids munch on a fortified peanut paste donated by UNICEF. "This one," says a nurse, pointing to a boy who scampers past her in oversized shorts, "you can't imagine the state in which he arrived. He couldn't even stand...
...parents take up a very authoritarian stance, trying to lay down the rules. This doesn't help an adolescent boy at all because it means the rules are imposed from outside, like a moral law. Parents need to be involved in a dialogue with their son. They need to fill the role of intellectual midwife: engage them in a conversation where the rules, the laws, what's right and what's wrong are talked about and not imposed. Sometimes parents have to forbid. But that doesn't mean the forbidding should happen in the absence of a dialogue...
This time of year, the various campus figures are asked to send out countless e-mails imploring students to fill out their Q evaluations. After final examinations are over, professors will get to read their students’ evaluations of their work. Students, on the other hand, often never see feedback on the final projects or papers they did at the end of the semester, their grades on final examinations, or section participation. This oversight—often justified by logistical constraints at the end of the year—is necessary and not that difficult...