Word: popularization
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...from various Ivy League institutions, including a B.S. from Yale and a master’s from the Harvard School of Public Health. He was elected to the Institute of Medicine, a prominent national advisory board, in 2006. While researching at the Medical School, he continues to teach a popular course at the College, Sociology 190: “Life and Death in the USA: Medicine and Disease in Social Context.” Christakis’ wife, Erika, who is currently traveling in India, is an anthropologist and elementary school teacher who has spent her professional career advocating...
...latest CD, “Tchamantché,” which is her first release in five years and has received much critical acclaim. “Tchamantche” marks a shift in style for Traoré, who based her new sound around the classic Gretsch electric guitar popular in the 50s and 60s. With music that fits into neither Western nor Malian categories, Traoré’s varied choice of instruments was fitting. Two guitars and a traditional drum set gave the music a more Western feel, while the n’goni, or African lute...
...Fenway, Middlesex Lounge, Audobon Circle, and Miracle of Science. “They have a very successful formula,” said Denise A. Jillson, executive director of the Harvard Square Business Association. “We’re confident that this will also be a very popular location.” Tory Row was originally scheduled to open last November, after Curtis and Lutes signed a lease with Getz that fall. “The owners have been paying rent all along, but they have very high standards around the place’s design and concept...
Love's experience became an enduring model for Washington czars: A large issue grabs the public's attention. The Administration has no solution - no popular one anyway. So the President names a czar. After a day or two of stern talk about crashing through bureaucratic walls and knocking pointy heads together, the czar gradually settles into lonely isolation in the Executive Office building, venturing out to give speeches at interest-group luncheons and perhaps shake hands with the President at a White House Christmas party. (See who's who in Obama's White House...
...implementation was to begin exterminating anyone who didn't fit this new ideal. He declared that he was turning Cambodia - now renamed the Democratic Republic of Kampuchea - back to "Year Zero," and intellectuals, businessmen, Buddhists and foreigners were all purged. "What is rotten must be removed," read a popular Khmer Rouge slogan at the time, and remove they did, often by execution but sometimes simply by working people to death in the fields...