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...Calestous Juma, director of the Science, Technology, and Globalization Project at the Belfer Center, said Holdren's main asset is his interest in using science as a diplomatic tool in our relations with developing countries...
...Composer Jeanine Tesori (with lyricist David Lindsay-Abaire) has supplied a few other cute numbers, most of them straightforward Broadway pop but with an occasional blues-rock beat, as in the funny, flatulence-enlivened love duet between Shrek and Fiona, "I Think I Got You Beat." The musical's main addition to the movie's irreverent spirit is a few quick spoofs of other Broadway shows, from Gypsy to The Lion King, which add some...
Mexico's criminal police are a product of the financial neglect and social scorn heaped on public law enforcement by the country's élite - the same ostentatiously upper-crust families who are now rampant kidnapping targets. Either way, cops are the main reason only 2% of Mexico's criminal cases are ever solved, according to the National Commission for Human Rights. Officially, Mexico is second only to war-torn Colombia in the number of kidnappings, but many security experts believe Mexico may have overtaken the South American nation in recent years. Thousands of abductions take place each year, they...
...young men with hoods pulled to their eyebrows and scarves around their mouths stood behind Syntagma Square, the main square of Athens not far from the Greek parliament. The violence had just been ratcheted up in the continuing protests that have rocked Greece since the fatal police shooting of Alexandros Grigoropoulos, 15, on Dec. 6. No one is certain yet why the riots continue to flare up. And, on Thursday, the two youths approached by TIME were not providing any clues either. Asked to explain why they were waging their violent campaign against the police the pair answered with...
...Decades of research show that two main factors result in better educational outcomes for poor and minority children: intensive, individualized early preschooling and small elementary-school classes. Yet for the past decade, the focus has been entirely on teacher quality. Why? It's cheaper and more palatable politically. Of course, it's better to have a good teacher than a poor one. But if you put the best teacher in a run-down school with a class of 35 students, most of them not up to par with their class level and some with developmental and discipline problems, that teacher...