Word: interent
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Forget all that Living Wage crap. Throw aside all the memos on inter-disciplinary integration, building a women’s studies center and raising the term bill. Essentially, ignore all of the nonsense you read on this paper’s editorial page. Think outside...
...Rudenstine has championed throughout his time as president the idea of "inter-faculty initiatives" that would allow faculty at different schools and in different areas to work together on problems that may be too complex--or too expensive--for any one part of the University to tackle on its own. Many of today's scientific problems, such as interpreting the just-sequenced human genome, require knowledge and expertise in fields that have historically had little crossover...
...came away reassured that research, in particular inter-disciplinary research, would be high on his agenda," says Martin...
...three of them did that, with Venezuela's Hugo Chavez obstreperously abstaining on the same gotta-check-with-my-congress grounds that everybody else felt free to ignore, and the summit ended not only with an "action plan" - a commitment of $20 billion from the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank to strengthen democratic foundations in the Americas and prepare for free trade among nations at widely disparate levels of development - but also with some language right out of Bush's "compassionate conservatism" file: a promise to create a hemisphere in which "no one is left behind...
...well as concrete measures to improve the region's creaking infrastructure, such as upgrading transborder highways and developing an Internet link for doctors. These will cost money: Summit officials put the total at more than $100 million, which will have to be found from such institutions as the Inter-American Development Bank. Latin Americans have balked at linking labor rights and environmental standards to the hemisphere free-trade drive, even in an action plan...