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...reacts to the scent of a new opportunity. An added attraction in this case is that the market for such products is so richly diverse. Not so long ago, traders in weather futures were energy producers, insurance firms and tourism ventures - almost exclusively companies that directly had something to gain or lose from a change in the weather. "Now," says Renaud Huck, CME Group's Europe associate director, "we have equity investors, hedge funds, commodity traders and weather traders." For them - and for the financial firms racing to sell products to them - global warming comes with a silver lining...
...University still has no permanent professor in Asian American studies, and the Asian American Association (AAA) is starting yet another campaign to bring the field to Harvard. Despite years of flourishing at other universities, Asian American studies is still struggling to gain traction in Cambridge. The former chair of Harvard’s history department says that a general slowdown in social science and humanities growth in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) is partly to blame, and that advocates of Asian American studies have yet to make a compelling argument for why it should be emphasized. But others...
...students brown their noses getting as close to it as possible. In the absence of any real deed to the organization, the undergraduates of the IOP end up as neutered mandarins attending to the details of something outside their control, and lapping up the adornments of power they gain by proximity. There’s a reason The Crimson isn’t an organ of the Harvard Gazette: students are capable enough of expressing themselves without supervision, and, just like politics, journalism isn’t an affair which can be exercised by proxy...
...lost. With a renewed interest in the arts emanating from Massachusetts Hall and mirrored in the English department and American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.), the time may have come for Harvard to finally reconcile its nearly 400-year struggle with the dramatic arts. Perhaps most significantly, students can now gain academic recognition for dramatic arts, through a new Secondary Field. As Homi K. Bhabha, professor, director of the Humanities Center, and member of President Drew G. Faust’s newly-inaugurated “task force on the arts,” says of drama at Harvard...
Last week, Church announced his entrance into the Archon X PRIZE for Genomics competition, which will award $10 million to the first team that maps 100 people’s genomes for under $10,000 per person in 10 days or less. And monetary gain is not the only inspiration for the project—the technique may allow for more personalized medical treatments...