Word: millennium
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Columbia’s proximity to the United Nations will allow him to better coordinate his activities as special advisor to the U.N.’s Millennium Development Goals...
Xu’s research was primarily sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, as well as Cambridge-based Millennium Pharmaceuticals company and Harvard...
Sachs, who specializes in the developing world and directs Harvard’s Center for International Development, was appointed a special advisor to Annan this winter. As a consultant on the U.N.’s Millennium Development Goals, a project that aims to cut poverty in half worldwide by 2015, Sachs will spend the next year working with the secretary-general...
...each chapter of history seems fresh and distinct from the last. For example, Jewish life 1,000 years ago is captured on a brief film (with English subtitles, like other exhibits) showing what houses and synagogues looked like in cities such as Worms at the turn of the first millennium. In a section on medieval life, visitors open drawers to discover anti-Jewish stereotypes of the time. For a display on the 18th century, you don headphones to hear what philosopher Moses Mendelssohn had to say on the immortality of the soul. If only Berlin's new look...
...India (as recent events suggest) remains just as Indian as it's always been, and yet it's also ever more in tune with the world outside. Insofar as multiculturalism is the theme of the new millennium, urban Indians-growing up with several languages and used to juggling cultures and traditions-have an edge over people from, say, a unicultural, often homogeneous Japan. Insofar as English is the global village's lingua franca, voluble, language-loving Indians brought up on Tennyson and Tagore are holding the festivals seldom heard of in Japan. And insofar as the most dominant new force...