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...know is that this guy had a dream. We don't know what that dream was.' HENRY LOUIS TAYLOR JR., University of Buffalo professor, on how Americans have lost sight of Martin Luther King Jr.'s message...
...Hong Kong dropped 5.5%, its biggest percentage loss since Sept. 11, 2001. India's benchmark shed 7.4%. In Europe, Britain fell 5.5%, France 6.8%, and Germany 7.2%. Brazilian stocks dropped 6.6% and Canada's main index lost 4.8%. In the U.S., markets were closed for the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, but when they reopened on Jan. 22, the Dow industrials promptly shed 300 points, joining the sell-off that continued overseas, forcing trading to be suspended in India and South Korea...
...Dinosaurs and their Relatives” lead to? How about “Justice”? Will our television-bereft parents enjoy whimsical hypotheticals about trolley cars and the morbidly obese? Will our liberal education prepare us adequately for the static ahead?Former Yale president Kingman Brewster, Jr., said that a liberal education “makes it less likely that you will be bored with life ... and less likely that you will be a bore to those around you.” Besides the fact that this could be more reassuring—for the price of my tuition...
...vessels’ role in tumor growth. A tireless innovator and mentor, he is also remembered for personally and professionally inspiring patients, students, and peers. “The field of cancer research has lost one of its most passionate, committed and creative warriors,” Edward Benz Jr., president of the Harvard-affiliated Dana-Farber Institute for Cancer Research, said in a statement. In 1971, Folkman published what would become a landmark paper about the relationship between tumors and blood supply. Folkman persisted in the face of skepticism and eventually founded the field of angiogenesis, the study...
...help, to get food,” said Wazhma Frogh, a gender and development specialist in Afghanistan. The panel, titled “Engendering Peace: Security Through an Inclusive Lens,” featured four women from Afghanistan, Israel, Colombia, and Palestine at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum on Wednesday night. Other participants included reporters, human rights lawyers, and grassroots organizers. The talk was part of the annual Women and Security Executive Program, which explores the ability of women to seek out compromise during times of intense conflict. “I think that men are more willing...