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...problem whose consequences are serious, but always far off. Do you worry that we'll lose focus on global warming? Yes, but I do think there is focus on this. Rahm Emanuel has a great line: "A crisis is a terrible thing to waste." Jeff Immelt at General Electric has another great line, that this isn't a recession, but a reset. It's a reexamination of how we've been living. Maybe the McMansion era is crashing to an end. It doesn't mean that you can't have a big house, but the ethos of what you need...
...March 16, Sir Paul Judge, a multimillionaire businessman and former director general of the Conservative Party under Prime Minister John Major, launched the Jury Team, an umbrella organization for Independents that is recruiting candidates via its website (www.juryteam.org). There, any member of the public can announce their candidacy for the upcoming European Parliament elections by describing their political interests in an online profile, uploading a photo, and linking to their profiles on other social networking sites such as MySpace, Facebook and Twitter. Then, rather than the party selecting which candidates to field in a traditional closed-door process, the public...
...sounds simple. But this reverse-engineering approach, finding inspiration for new vaccines by studying HIV immunity in nature, would have been impossible back in 1984 - or, indeed, until just a few years ago. Too little was known about the virus's structure or about the human immune system in general. One recent necessary breakthrough, Nussenzweig says, was finding a way to identify the blood cells that create HIV-specific antibodies. It was only after those cells could be separated from the bloodstream that scientists like Nussenzweig and Johannes Scheid, the first author on the Nature paper, could begin to study...
...spring conference, titled “The Fierce Urgency of Now: Effecting Change at Home and Across the Globe” with New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin, Jr., as a keynote speaker. The conference, which ran from Friday through yesterday afternoon, was open to Harvard students and the general public. It was intended to inform attendees of issues affecting the Black community, according to the BLSA’s Web site. Brigid K. Ndege ’10, a Harvard Law School student and BLSA member, said she attended the event to learn about topics that aren?...
...foreign companies also figured prominently on the list. In fact, they got nearly $60 billion at a time when U.S. firms, notably General Motors, are having to beg for federal dollars just to stay solvent. The biggest winners were French banks, including Société Général, which together scored $19 billion, and German banks, including Deutsche Bank, which got a combined $17 billion...