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...Leung—program manager at the Krell Institute, which administers the award—the fellowship seeks individuals with promise as researchers. “[Norman’s] academic record, his research record, and his recommendations all indicate that in many cases he is performing at the level of a senior graduate student,” Leung said. “We’re looking forward to seeing what he does with his graduate career.” As part of the program, Yao will receive over $70,000 in yearly stipends, university tuition, academic allowance...
...Still, it's another challenge for the industry at a time when demand in mature markets could use its own caffeine kick. While global coffee consumption grew slightly last year, the level in Europe - which brews up roughly twice as much as the U.S. in absolute terms - fell by 2%. "There's still a bit more to come with regards to demand erosion" in both of those big markets, says Abah Ofon, a commodities analyst with Standard Chartered in Dubai. Any growth in demand from developing markets, he says, is "insufficient to lift a market which is falling...
...wars - especially Afghanistan, which Gates has said he hopes will turn around in the next year, but which has obviously become a more difficult enterprise than anticipated. Gates originally had planned to retire after a year or so, but he seems to have settled in, found a level of comfort and influence with the Obama Democrats that he never quite expected. "I don't do maintenance," Gates told me. "I would never do a job just to sustain the status quo. I like to go into an institution that's already good and do everything I can to make...
When Sir Ranulph Fiennes first attempted to scale Mount Everest in 2005, he suffered a heart attack 1,000 ft. from the summit (29,029 ft., or 8,848 m, above sea level). Three years later, exhaustion foiled a second attempt at virtually the same height. But on May 21, the 65-year-old British adventurer (and third cousin of actors Joseph and Ralph Fiennes) finally scaled Everest, making him the first man to conquer the world's highest peak and cross the North and South Poles unaided. "I get vertigo and don't like looking down," he says...
...London School of Economics and author of What's Wrong with the European Union and How to Fix It, observes that the elections tend to serve as referenda on national political issues rather than addressing European ones. "It's not a genuine contest for power at the European level," he says. (See pictures of London...