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...Trunnell ends up following through with a wrongful-death suit against Smithfield Foods, it will most likely make legal history. No one has ever tried to hold a corporation responsible for the inadvertent creation of an infectious disease. Trunnell and his lawyer, Marc Rosenthal, do not claim that Smithfield purposely bred the virus, but rather that its Perote operation, which raises some 1 million pigs annually in close quarters, established the necessary conditions for the virus to arise. If Smithfield had taken better care of its farm, the petition claims, H1N1 might never have been introduced to the world...
Economist Marc J. Melitz will return from Princeton next year to a Harvard Economics Department short on faculty. Melitz—a former associate and assistant professor at Harvard who now teaches in Princeton’s economics department and Woodrow Wilson School—is well-known for his work on international trade. “He’s been the most influential international trade economist since Paul Krugman,” said economics professor Pol Antràs, who worked with Melitz during his time at Harvard. Melitz’s influence on the study of international...
...also had nine interceptions. It’s never a good sign when you have more interceptions than touchdowns.Elsewhere around the NFL, there is a smattering of players with Ivy League roots. In St. Louis, Columbia’s Jeff Otis is a deep backup for Rams quarterback Marc Bulger.Dartmouth’s Casey Cramer is a third string fullback in his third stint with the Titans, last I checked.In Arizona, Brown’s Sean Morey is holding things down for the Cardinals special teams. He got a Pro Bowl selection this past season...
...Marc C. McGovern, another school committee member, said that he would like to see the stimulus money pay to place social workers in schools, if possible...
...dogs really man’s best friend? The Harvard Cognitive Evolution Lab in William James Hall, now home to more than 1,000 dogs, may hold the answer. The dogs will be used in behavior studies, which, according to Psychology Professor Marc D. Hauser, the leader of the study, will reveal “the extent to which domestication will change dogs into the proximity of human thinking.” The lab formerly housed 40 cottontop tamarin monkeys but were recently replaced by dogs because of the high cost of caring for the monkeys. This switch from monkeys...