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...work for poverty wages in the future. Just days before Harvard’s janitors officially launch contract negotiations, Summers will have the opportunity to do King’s memory proud. A real commitment to the dignity of the many faces of color who allow Harvard to function will, no doubt, serve as a most welcome step...
That's why Wagoner decided to hire Lutz. The two had never talked much until last May, when they found themselves seated together at a Harvard Business School function in Detroit. The GM CEO started grilling the former Chrysler vice chairman on "how to make cars people want to buy." Not too many days later, Wagoner asked if he could drop by Lutz's office for a 6 a.m. breakfast. (Lutz, not a morning person, nearly balked.) "I asked him how I could find a 50-year-old Bob Lutz," recalls Wagoner. "And it took about 13 seconds...
...destructing cash machines and riots in supermarkets didn't materialize. True, the banking network was stretched pretty thin. Banksys, the group that operates Belgium's atms, recorded some 600 cash withdrawals a minute in the first two hours of the new year. Two hundred Dutch post offices, which also function as banks for many small savers, weren't ready to open their doors on Jan. 2, the first business day of the euro era. The one real laggard appeared to be Italy, whose conservative government has been unusually cool toward the euro. Italians complained of a short supply of coins...
...alpha molecule is not a new discovery—it’s long been known to scientists. But the molecule’s circadian function comes as something of a surprise...
...work, which used the structure of molecules to help understand their function, has become common textbook fare. Studying proteins in the immune system and on certain viruses, Wiley helped explain the way the body defends itself against disease...