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...wild, a little bit uncivilized,” Schmidgen adds.LOST IN THE STACKSLike teaching, research is conducted differently in Berlin—making for some cultural differences that Schmidgen says he enjoys.At the Max Planck Institute, Schmidgen says, professors rarely research in libraries themselves, relying on library staff to obtain books and materials. In his experience at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France two years ago, workers, with uniforms and gloves, went around to different stacks and brought books back to scholars’ desks.“You never have to move,” Schmidgen says.But professors...
...repackaging his views. As recently as January 2004, Bush used his first policy announcement of that re-election year to unveil a guest-worker program that would allow illegal immigrants to obtain legal status for at least six years if they have a job and their employer vouches for them. The plan incensed conservatives. Talk-radio hosts and bloggers fanned resentment over "Press 1 for English" phone menus and borders porous to drugs and terrorists. In June, two months after a citizens' group called the Minuteman Project began vigilante patrols of the Mexican border, Bush told lawmakers...
...achievements of Farmer and all your other Global Health heroes. People often talk about medical problems in terms of finding breakthrough cures and medications. Your report has given me a greater appreciation of the distinctly different challenge of making medical solutions available to those who otherwise could not obtain them. Edward Chan Evanston, Illinois...
...achievements of Farmer and all your other Global Health heroes. People often talk about medical problems in terms of finding breakthrough cures and medications. Your report has given me a greater appreciation of the distinctly different challenge of making medical solutions available to those who otherwise could not obtain them. Edward Chan Evanston, Illinois, U.S. You chose as one of your heroes theologian and physician Peter Okaalet, who works in Africa with pastors and their congregations to redefine their response to the aids epidemic. Okaalet exemplifies the most important weapon in our war on poverty and disease: education. He teaches...
...comply with the subpoena. She added that The Crimson planned to fight the subpoena on three grounds: because it seeks information that is not central to the parties’ claims, because compliance would compromise the newspaper’s independent role, and because the parties could easily obtain elsewhere the information material to their claims. Zuckerberg, and his five business associates listed in the suit, have denied any wrongdoing and have argued in court documents that Harvard Connection was a dating site and not the facebook.com model of an information site with social networking capabilities. “This...