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Surprised more of your favorite professors didn't land in the single digits? Don't worry—there is no need to transfer to Yale—more faculty members including Nicholas Christakis (50), Niall C.D Ferguson (56), Amartya Sen (58), and Samantha Power (80) got a spot on the elite list...

Author: By Amira Abulafi, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Strong Harvard Showing in Foreign Policy's Top 100 Thinkers | 12/2/2009 | See Source »

Nothing—if one believes that such differentials are necessary for our economic system to thrive. But do many believe that differentials need be this grotesquely large to incentivize and reward people adequately, if not richly? No; they are that large today simply because they can be that large, not because of some virtuous working of the market. This is not Adam Smith’s capitalism. Just as he decried the inevitable greed and corruption of monopoly, he would surely rail against today’s self-serving and closed systems of compensation review...

Author: By Elliot F. Gerson | Title: Stolen by the Street | 12/2/2009 | See Source »

...skeptic about AIDS research and refused to make antiretroviral treatment (ART) widely available. "It's really only in the last few years that they've been scaling up AIDS programming, especially nonprevention programming," says MacLean. "As effective as they are, they're late to the game and they need more international resources." The need became even greater on Tuesday, when the country's new President, Jacob Zuma, announced a commitment to test all infants and provide free treatment to those found to be infected with HIV. (See pictures of children orphaned by AIDS in Malawi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Obama Scaling Back Bush's AIDS Initiative? | 12/2/2009 | See Source »

...August letter written by global AIDS coordinator Goosby to U.S. ambassadors in PEPfAR countries indicates that the Administration doesn't believe that balance is possible in the current economic climate. "The landscape around us is changing, with the need to balance a broad portfolio of global challenges at a time of financial crisis," he wrote. "As a result, we need to plan for the next stage of PEPfAR's development in this context and cannot assume the dramatic funding growth of PEPfAR's early years will be repeated." One of the original PEPfAR goals was to attain universal access (defined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Obama Scaling Back Bush's AIDS Initiative? | 12/2/2009 | See Source »

...when temperature increases, and do so in a vortex, but in a barrel or other container, the vortex is slowed by the angles," he says. Within the angle-free Egg, however, "the vortex turns naturally for weeks, which raises the lees, and nourishes the wine." It also eliminates the need for stirring, which is a common source of contamination from brettanomyces - yeast that leads to spoilage and cloudiness. "We used to break our backs racking and stirring the wine, and here's a system that works better than man," says Schlaepfer. "It's a magical vinification instrument...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Wine In Old Vessels | 12/2/2009 | See Source »

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