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...It’s not an overstatement to say that the modern world is dominated by semiconductors,” he said...
...seminar about ethics and aesthetics is currently in progress for the fall term. Next semester, seminars will be offered in a variety of subjects, including animal studies, Asia in the making of the modern world, American food, international human rights, literature of the Civil War, and probability...
...storing the dead pheasant one may find on his way to class, and they make for handy and spacious pencil cases, too. While within the safe confines of the Harvard bubble, boys will be boys (or in this case, 40-year-old men), but on any other campus, these modern-day dandies would surely get their suspenders snapped against their backs. —Columnist Victoria D. Sung can be reached at vsung@fas.harvard.edu...
...rise of the old tongue has some worried about a potentially new conflict: that the increasing number of gaelscoileanna will pit Ireland's constitutional vow to preserve its "native" language against the obligation as a modern country to integrate its increasing immigrant population. While Walsh and hundreds of thousands of other Irish were making their way home, other, newer migration paths were being cut from China, Nigeria, Poland and many other countries. Between the late 1980s and today, the percentage of foreign-born residents in Ireland grew from around 1% to almost 12%. "People choose gaelscoileanna for all kinds...
...managed to pull the two sides back from the brink of what could have been the fourth major war between them. And in the intervening years, as events related to the U.S. "war on terror" came to dominate Pakistan's security situation, the conflict that began at birth between modern India and Pakistan has given way to something approaching a semblance of peace...