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...stakes are high on both sides. Given the importance that Beijing places on China's economic development, commodity-price data could be considered vital and sensitive information, says Joshua Rosenzweig, Hong Kong--based manager for the Dui Hua Foundation, a human-rights group. "The success of China's economy is tied up with the legitimacy of the government in a very big way," he notes. Foreign mining companies--very much including Australian ones--have profited greatly by feeding China's ravenous appetite for raw materials. But recently, wild fluctuations in commodity prices and friction over trade deals have increased tension...
...Henry Waxman with Joshua Green; Twelve; 235 pages...
That is the question that Joshua Greene, 35, an assistant professor of psychology at Harvard University is trying to answer. More specifically, Greene is trying to identify the particular pattern of brain activity that distinguishes people who are simply telling the truth from those who are resisting the temptation to lie. His findings, which are based on functional-magnetic-resonance-imaging (fMRI) data, shed light not only on the workings of the human mind but also on the controversy over using fMRI technology outside the lab in the detection of lies. (Check out a story about how to spot...
...that friendship has become mostly a fond memory, now close to dormancy. Ben (Mark Duplass) has been busy making a life for himself in Seattle, acquiring a steady job, a house and a wife - doe-eyed Anna (Alycia Delmore), who is warm and kind and really gets him. Andrew (Joshua Leonard) is one of those carefree, just-back-from-Machu Picchu types, reliable mostly for being unreliable. Both men are at that stage of life where the costumes they've been trying on are about to become uniforms if they don't swap them for something else soon...
...incentive program, and Rinere is leaving for Columbia, where she will become dean of advising and associate dean of student affairs. Hammonds said that a search has begun for Herschbach's replacement, though Herschbach has agreed to work with the College through the fall term.Hammonds also announced Thursday that Joshua McIntosh, assistant deal of ORL, has been named associate dean for student life, and Assistant Dean and Director of Student Activities David Friedrich and Director of the Women's Center Susan Marine have both been appointed assistant deans for student life. Due to Rinere's departure, Assistant Dean Inge-Lise...