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...will continue to explore these ideas during his time as a Nieman Fellow, a mid-career hiatus to Harvard during which he is also taking classes at the University and seminars on journalism from the Nieman Foundation. Even after the initial skepticism Sennott noted, several audience members were keen to continue the discussion after the forum wrapped up. “We need to look at the Middle East differently through the prism of our own faith,” Sennott said. “Let’s get smart. Let’s start asking the questions that...
...Lukashenko maintains a Soviet-style welfare state providing basic medical services, education and pensions - though the payouts are meager. Yet relations with Russia remain uneasy: there is no love lost between Lukashenko and Russian President Vladimir Putin, says Andrei Sannikov, former Belarusian Deputy Foreign Minister, and the Kremlin is keen to bring Belarus back into Russia's fold. If Moscow were to shut off the oil, Lukashenko's regime would collapse. But for now, the ornery President holds off another democratic revolution on Russia's borders. Lukashenko does that the old-fashioned way. Every corner...
Remarkably, the sensor business was almost tossed aside by Siemens in 2000 during a corporate overhaul. "But I realized that this was an interesting enabling technology, and I was keen to do something on my own, so I told them I'd like to take the technology and spin it off," says Brehler, 42. On second thought, Siemens saw the light, and its venture-capital unit provided some start-up financing. EnOcean expects to become cash positive soon. "Today everybody's talking about smart homes and buildings. In this environment, our products are the eyes and ears of these intelligent...
...Harvard wrestling team was matched up this weekend against some of the toughest competition in the nation at the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational Friday and Saturday. It walked away with 48 points and a 17th-place finish among a field...
...plenty more work to be done: one of the problems hindering efforts to manage dingoes is the lack of data on their numbers or the national spread of hybridization, particularly across vast stretches of the Northern Territory and Western Australia where they have traditionally been prolific. Wilton's keen to do more sampling, but hasn't been able to find funding and has to rely on charging a per sample fee. Now, with the help of a Ph.D. student from Sweden, he is about to begin trying to extract dna from skulls collected in the 1960s and '70s - the oldest...