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...first step to making that case is understanding exactly what warmer temperatures will do to us and our diseases - and few scientists know more about the topic than Patz, a member of the UN's Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). (Hear Patz talk about global warming and health on this week's Greencast.) As temperatures increase, and hotter, drier summers become the norm in regions that were once temperate, powerful heat waves - like the one in Europe in 2003, which killed an estimated 35,000 people - will take a toll. At the same time, climate models...
...judge in the Harvard Model Congress, proposed the idea that removing programs such as affirmative action would diminish white resentment of African Americans—resentment that he said contributes to discrimination. An audience member, Raul A. Campillo ’09, offered an alternate approach during a post-panel discussion: that the government issue a formal acknowledgement and apology for its wrongdoings against minorities. Campillo’s proposal met with opposition from Anjelica M. Kelly ’09, president of the Association of Black Harvard Women. “The problems will continue to be perpetuated...
...Drop in Schering-Plough's stock price after a panel of cardiologists announced on March 30 that the drugs may not work. Merck's stock fell...
...president in April 2006. The Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI)—a University-wide program supporting the practice of humanitarian response worldwide—organized the event to educate students about the recent crisis in Chad and its relation to the ongoing military conflict in Darfur. The panel featured HHI Fellow Alex W. de Waal; Heinz J. Henghuber, a former head of Doctors without Borders; and UNICEF emergency coordinator Sherazade Boualia. Chad, which neighbors Darfur to the west, resumed fighting in February when rebels attempted to overthrow President Idriss Déby, who has ruled Chad as a dictator...
Anthony T. Kronman, a professor at Yale Law School, defended his controversial new book, “Education’s End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up On The Meaning of Life,” before a panel of professors in the Thompson Room last night. Kronman spoke at Harvard as a part of the Humanities Center’s series “20 Questions,” in which professors from a wide range of disciplines question notable intellectuals who have written provocative books. “The real idea is to introduce the widest...