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...endowment managers yesterday to sell the Sinopec shares after the Corporation’s Committee on Shareholder Responsibility—which comprises Robert D. Reischauer ’63, an economist, and James R. Houghton ’58, the chairman of the glass and fiber-optic company Corning—recommended divestment. In a statement yesterday, the Committee on Shareholder Responsibility said that Sinopec is a partner in a venture that will significantly increase oil production in southeastern Sudan in the coming months...
...endowment managers today to sell the Sinopec shares after the Corporation’s Committee on Shareholder Responsibility—which comprises Robert D. Reischauer ’63, an economist, and James R. Houghton ’58, the chairman of the glass and fiber-optic company Corning—recommended divestment. In a statement today, the Committee on Shareholder Responsibility said that Sinopec is a partner in a venture that will significantly increase oil production in southeastern Sudan in the coming months...
...strategy paid off in an avalanche of astonishing and profitable technologies as well, from computer chips to fiber-optic cables to lasers to gene splicing and more. According to a 2003 National Academies report, no fewer than 19 multibillion-dollar industries resulted from fundamental research in information technology alone. Yet, says David Patterson, president of the Association for Computing Machinery, "people have this idea of academic research as this fuzzy, ivory-tower stuff that probably doesn...
...that JetBlue could be transformative. Weren't we supposed to be celebrating the death of geography right about now? According to the last wave of techno-hype, in the newtopian '90s, we were supposed to be swirling clouds of data bits, teleporting from one point to another through fiber-optic cables...
...Stating that “the end result has to be two states,” Dershowitz said that any future Palestinian state “will not be contiguous.” He suggested that high speed rail links, along with water links and fiber-optic infrastructure, could help to address the problems of communication and transportation that this would entail. On the status of Jerusalem, Dershowitz accepted that “it is going to have to be divided along demographic lines.” However, he pointed out that at the Camp David peace talks between Israeli...