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In the fall of 2001, shortly after she arrived at Harvard as Dean of the newly created Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Drew Gilpin Faust gave a speech to the entering class. She told the story of a young woman named Sarah Pellet who in 1850 had the audacity to...
Skeptics, meanwhile, see North Korea's current eagerness for investment as another in Kim's endless series of feints designed to keep his opponents off balance--and the foreign aid handouts flowing so the country stays fed. "The North Korean economic approach has always been to extract resources from outsiders...
Rice dies after three days of being submerged in water. This could lead to a major crisis as global warming causes more monsoons and typhoons in Asia, where half the world's population relies on the grain as a main food source. The good news is that scientists at the...
Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, owner of the Portland Trail Blazers and the Seattle Seahawks, and one of the developers of the first private spacecraft, has never lacked for ways to stay busy, but in 2001 he joined with the University of California, Berkeley, and the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial...
The 29-page letter - entitled "A Common Word between Us and You" - is addressed to Pope Benedict XVI, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams and 25 other named Christian leaders and "Leaders of Christian Churches, everywhere". Organized by the Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought in Amman, Jordan, it...