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...instead of aggressively scrutinizing whether to buy or sell certain stocks, these committees confine themselves to narrow and formal questions of company policy, called proxies--questions whose answers rarely change anything...
...founding the Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease. As the program's director, Haber led 37 scientists in "a molecular approach to identifying the genes that have an important role in the development of arteriosclerosis," Lee said. Arteriosclerosis, a condition in which the walls of the arteries narrow and thicken, is the leading cause of death in the United States...
Such an insight transcends Marx's narrow material dialecticism and speaks to the tangibility of building (and razing) of historical projects. That is, we quite literally walk on top of the past as we cast off our presents onto the giant heap. The Indian-Pakistani rivalry, which harkens back to the 1947 partition creating the two nations and to the historic Hindu-Muslim animosity, is now being grafted onto the setting of a nuclear planet. The weapons of war have changed even as the cultural animosity remains the same...
...There would be [a hazard] if we accepted funds for a very narrow or political purpose," Vogel says...
...knew I wanted to study literature, but I didn't really know why," Delbanco says of his undergraduate academic pursuits. But he says the time and attention his professors gave him helped him narrow his literary focus...