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Park Youn Hee, a 27-year-old in Seoul who is about to enter graduate school, remembers well the rush of hope that overcame her nine years ago during the first summit between North and South Korea. As she watched then South Korean President Kim Dae Jung and North Korea's paramount leader Kim Jong Il shake hands in Pyongyang on television, Park believed the Cold War conflict on the Korean peninsula might finally come to an end. "We all thought that something was going to change right away," she recalls...
...college graduate himself, Chu had the “single-minded” goal to become a physicist, spending eight years studying at Berkeley and then nine years working at Bell Laboratories—a “warm, cozy ivory tower” that he would eventually leave to teach at Stanford and then the University of California, Berkeley...
...teenagers were followed for nine months. Less than a quarter (21.4%) of those in the CB program went on to have an episode of depression, compared with about a third (32.7%) of those in the control group. The results were far more dramatic for teens whose parents were not actively suffering from depression: only 11.7% who went through the program had an episode of depression during the nine-month follow...
...where he watched music performances for free. Antoine could always find time to talk about his plans for the College’s music department, said Charles W. Altchek ’07, who had known Antoine since their freshman year at the Horace Mann School in New York, nine years ago. Antoine, who played the violin and piano, had wanted to expand the interaction between the music department and undergraduates, Altchek added. The stress of planning and performing in the Class of 2007’s freshman musical—which Antoine produced—was palpable, according...
...endures the brunt of the crisis: "The first hit and worst affected by climate change are the world's poorest groups. Ninety-nine percent of all casualties occur in developing countries. A stark contrast to the one percent of global emissions attributable to some 50 of the least developed nations ... And the poor lack capacity to make their voices heard in international arenas or attract public and private investment. For those living on the brink of survival, climate change is a very real and dangerous hazard. For many, it is a final step of deprivation...