Word: philipps
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Health-care reform isn't for the faint-hearted. Just ask President Obama. So an air of menace could help Philipp Rösler, Germany's new Health Minister, in his quest to shake up the country's expensive public health-care system. At 36, the Vietnamese-born politician is the youngest member of Chancellor Angela Merkel's new center-right coalition government and the first Asian ever to be appointed a German cabinet minister. Softly spoken and affable, he certainly doesn't seem like a political bruiser. But rumor has it that no one dared challenge him when...
While it is unlikely that the committee, led by Georgetown President John J. DeGioia, would deny Harvard reaccreditation, the process allows students to voice criticism and praise of the University. Philipp W. Grimm ’11, one of the four undergraduates—the fifth student was in graduate school—who attended the meeting, suggested that the low turnout was indicative of the Harvard administration’s inability to communicate successfully with the student body...
...country whose Economics Minister is named Karl-Theodor Maria Nikolaus Johann Jacob Philipp Franz Freiherr zu Guttenberg, the verdict seems illogical. But on Tuesday, Germany's Federal Constitutional Court rejected a woman's appeal to go by her new married name, Frieda Rosemarie Thalheim-Kunz-Hallstein, arguing that the name is too long...
...People may have an extended lifespan,” said Raul Mostoslavsky, a researcher at Harvard-affiliated Mass. General Hospital who worked on the study. The protein, produced by a longevity gene called SIRT1, is known to perform two main jobs in yeast cells, according to Philipp Oberdoerffer, a pathologist at Harvard Medical School and the study’s lead author. He said that one job is to regulate certain gene, and another is to fix damaged areas of a cell. “You can’t wait for a bunch of proteins...
Last summer, Philipp W. Grimm ’11 worked as a policy analyst in Alberta, Canada—but something was bothering...