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...idea of an APEC free-trade area." This year came a free-trade agreement between the U.S. and Korea. "Nobody expected that to happen," Oxley says. "It's resulted in a very serious look in Japan at doing an FTA with the Americans. And that has been a paradigm shift." If the U.S. and Japan sign a deal, an APEC free-trade area will start to enter the realm of the possible...
...have felt the earth moving beneath your feet. Yet, some officials attending the four-way summit of Israeli and Arab leaders at the Egyptian resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh this week sensed a paradigm shift in the making. The way toward Israeli-Palestinian peace has been blocked for years, by Palestinian violence, Israeli unilateralism and American disengagement. But the peacemakers are saying they have been shaken out of their slumber by a recent series of events - for the moment at least...
...four months as UC president, Petersen has established something of a new paradigm for student leadership and advocacy. Repeatedly raising the stakes and only pulling back when concessions from the University appear imminent, the Quincy House junior has promoted undergraduate interests indefatigably, stridently, and often successfully...
...will be better able to centralize resources for stem cell research than the Institute could alone, in particular gaining the power to hire its own faculty. The Corporation established the new department with impressive speed, despite its radical departure from the University’s traditionally decentralized paradigm. The University Planning Committee on Science and Engineering (UPCSE) only recommended the department’s creation four months ago in the committee’s final report. The committee also recommended a University-wide Systems Biology department, a field which combines physics and computational science to investigate how biological systems, such...
During Surrealism’s heyday, Jean Cocteau argued that the criterion for a true work of Surrealist art should be that the images are “lasting and fresh.” “The Secret Lives of Umbrellas” would have us question this paradigm...