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...students concentrated in economics—by last November, that number was up to 686. In May, 268 students graduated with degrees in economics, while another 72 joint-concentrated, combining economics and another field...
...What will increase, however, will be the formalization of interdisciplinary affiliations, in the form of faculty joint appointments and institutes that bring together people from different fields,” Bogucki wrote in an e-mail...
WILL NASA WHITEWASH PROBLEMS AS IT DID AFTER CHALLENGER? The haunting fact of Challenger was that engineers who knew about the booster-joint problem begged NASA not to launch that day and were ignored. Later the Rogers Commission, ordered to get to the bottom of things, essentially recommended that nothing change. No NASA manager was fired; no safety systems were added to the solid rocket boosters whose explosion destroyed Challenger; no escape-capsule system was added to get astronauts out in a calamity, which might have helped Columbia. In return for failure, the shuttle program got a big budget increase...
After her brief and indelible foray into the glamorous life of a sports luminary, Nicole returns to her summer job at a Toronto law firm and then moves on to law school in the fall. She plans on attending a joint program between the University of Windsor and University of Detroit...
Above all, the researchers are trying to stop the spread of AIDS, which has been an epidemic for many years now. In December 2002, the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS estimated that 42 million people were living with HIV/AIDS globally, 3.2 million of whom were children under fifteen. Thirteen thousand people contract the virus daily...