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...tenure. He has clashed with the Bush Administration and weathered protests stemming from his negotiations with Tehran, and he has been chided for wavering when forced to confront intractable leaders. But it's been a decorated run as well: in 2005, ElBaradei and the IAEA were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The Vienna-based agency kicks off its 52nd General Conference on Sept...
...Most scientists believe that the pruning is guided both by genetics and by a use-it-or-lose-it principle. Nobel prizewinning neuroscientist Gerald Edelman has described that process as "neural Darwinism" - survival of the fittest (or most used) synapses. How you spend your time may be critical. Research shows, for instance, that practicing piano quickly thickens neurons in the brain regions that control the fingers. Studies of London cab drivers, who must memorize all the city's streets, show that they have an unusually large hippocampus, a structure involved in memory. Giedd's research suggests that the cerebellum...
...Harvard’s Sustainability Celebration in late October. Gore, who will be joined onstage by Faust at the Tercentenary Theater event, is known for his part in the Academy Award-winning documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” and was the recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to raise awareness about the impact of global warming. “Al Gore is the posterchild for Harvard’s impact on addressing the challenge of the environment,” said Daniel P. Schrag, head of the Harvard Center for the Environment...
...panel, entitled “Understanding the Crisis in the Markets: A Panel of Harvard Experts,” featured an all-star cast, including Dean of Harvard Business School Jay O. Light, Business School professor and Nobel laureate Robert C. Merton, and Ec 10 professor and textbook author N. Gregory Mankiw. The participants discussed their views on the events that led to the current crisis, the bailout plan making its way through the halls of Congress, and more extensive, permanent resolutions...
...power to intimidate the highest ranking members of the junta derives from his intellectual prowess. One of the founders of the opposition National League for Democracy, he was viewed by many as the party's chief strategist, as well as a mentor for Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace Prize winner who is in her 13th year of house arrest for leading Burma's ongoing pro-democracy movement. The generals believed he "was my puppet master," Suu Kyi once wrote of Win Tin. Bo Kyi Win of the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners in Burma, a Thailand-based exile...