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...this planet, and its questions concern no less than their origin, evolution and preservation. Pellegrino University Professor E.O. Wilson—one of the pioneers of biodiversity studies—advanced his now world-famous conservation studies here at Harvard. The OEB’s Herbaria houses 5.5 million plant specimens, filed in rooms of endless metal chests, including the largest, most important collection in the world of Chinese plant species; the Museum of Comparative Zoology has an impressive 21 million specimens to its name...
SUSAN BYRNE: Companies don't care if our children are working in a Nissan plant in North Carolina or if we hire an accountant in India. The kinds of jobs we create here and the kind we send overseas may have a profound effect on society, but it doesn't affect corporate profits. In a worldwide sense, we are having a strong and vigorous jobs recovery...
After the Madrid bombing, even the German government, which consistently opposed the Iraq war, came around to this recognition. A senior German official, quoted in the Wall Street Journal, said, "If ... you can plant a big bomb in Europe, cause a government to fall and force a withdrawal of troops, then this would send the wrong signal to terrorists." He added, "That's not in Germany's interests or in Europe's or in Spain's." Winston Churchill put it more concisely: "An appeaser is one who feeds the crocodile hoping he will eat him last...
...said that Associate Dean of the College Judith H. Kidd helped plant the idea in his head...
Sage, the new COO of Tata Technologies, the automotive-software division of India's largest conglomerate, is no stranger to the world stage. During his two-decade career at IBM, he not only helped design a Mercedes plant in Alabama but also merged GM's information technology with its South Korean partner, Daewoo Motors. At Tata, Sage plans to cash in on outsourcing; a group of Tata engineers is already writing code for GM and Chrysler. A carpenter's grandson, Sage, 51, leaves behind more than IBM as he departs for India; he now has to sell the log cabin...