Word: peering
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...turns out the 2035 estimate came not from a peer-reviewed scientific paper but from an interview conducted in 1999 by New Scientist magazine with the Indian glaciologist Syed Hasnain. The article, which included a "speculative" claim by Hasnain that the Himalayan glaciers could vanish by 2035, then became part of a 2005 report by the World Wildlife Fund - and that report, apparently, became the source for the IPCC claim. For his part, Hasnain says he was misquoted in the New Scientist article and claims that he had said that only a subset of the Himalayas' glacial cover might...
Though concerns have persisted over compensation at HMC—where managers can net millions of dollars—top officers at the University itself earn modest salaries in comparison with administrators at peer institutions like Columbia and Yale, and have avoided similar criticism...
...Heidi Horsley, an adjunct professor at the Columbia University School of Social Work, started the nonprofit Open to Hope and The Grief Blog to connect those who have experienced loss and to provide expert as well as peer-to-peer resources to help with the grieving process. The Open to Hope Foundation recently expanded its online channels to include Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. "People initially come to blog on the site as strangers, and they start to get to know each other," she says. "They form strong friendships based on their experiences and become part of a virtual Internet family...