Word: peering
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...seat at the negotiating table for them. India has been reluctant to allow the separatists a voice in the talks. "We've seen meetings between the Indian and Pakistani Foreign Secretaries, but things won't change much in Kashmir unless Kashmiris have a say in the talks," says Basharat Peer, author of a new memoir about growing up during the insurgency. "We are a people desperate to be heard...
...Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are exploiting the connectedness of youngsters in online social networks, for example, to improve flu-vaccination rates, not just among those under age 18 but among all the people to whom these children have ties. "Because of their social and peer networks, children have a higher likelihood of sharing information with the most people," says Jay Bernhardt of the CDC. By targeting youngsters on these sites with information about the importance of annual flu shots, health officials hope to trigger a literal and figurative viral wave of vaccination among the kids' peers, their...
...post in late January, Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity Judith D. Singer joked that like the Obama transition team, Lamont will have to “hit the ground running” in light of the current financial crisis and the fact that Harvard lags behind peer institutions in faculty diversity...
Only 9 percent of tenure-track faculty in the humanities at Harvard are minorities—in contrast to percentages of up to 33 percent at peer institutions like MIT—according to the latest report on Faculty Development and Diversity...
...race to top the latest proposals in a senseless race to spend billions," said Merkel, who has announced $15.4 billion in measures to stimulate the German economy - less than half the $33.4 billion France will apply to the same problem, and Britain's $34.8 billion package. German Finance Minister Peer Steinbruck was even more blunt. "Just because all the lemmings have chosen the same way doesn't automatically make it the right way," he told Der Spiegel...