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...school as a metaphor for excellence. Some things at Harvard are not the best. I remember developing a seemingly brilliant chemistry equation and discussing it with a graduate teaching fellow. He liked it. Later, I found that there were two things wrong: The equation was incomplete, and the correct formula had been discovered a century previously...
...country. Both China and India are likely to resist calls to make any sharp reductions to their emissions anytime soon, even as they - and other developing nations - ask for billions in assistance from rich nations to deal with the climate change they're helping to drive. That's a formula for deadlock - which is exactly how the most recent round of negotiations ended, at a meeting in Bonn in mid-August, with a 200-page document that included more than 2,000 points of disagreement. "We are nowhere near any kind of agreement for climate change," says Janos Pasztor, director...
Japan's lost decade is stretching into decades. It has been almost 20 years since the bursting of a mammoth property and stock bubble plunged the country into an economic deep freeze. Japan's leaders have been wandering in the wilderness ever since, unable to find a formula for growth to replace the model that was found wanting years ago. (See the new activism of Japan's youth...
...English language," the newspaper quotes the documents as saying, she was "unable to call for assistance for transportation to the hospital" to give birth. The social-services translator also reported that Baltazar Cruz had put Rubí in danger because she "had not brought a cradle, clothes or baby formula." But indigenous Oaxacan mothers traditionally breast feed their babies for a year and rarely use bassinets, carrying their infants instead in a rebozo, a type of sling...
...kwan. While walking around her factory in Hong Kong's New Territories, the 80-year-old giggles as she offers samples of a candy product she's developing. The subtly sweet ginger confectionery is a delight, and Tsang - hale and lively - declares that she has finally perfected the formula that prevents it from sticking to teeth...