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Tracy Kidder ’67– Pulitzer Prize winner, literary journalist, and Harvard graduate–has been writing award-winning non-fiction for the past 35 years. While many of his books center on life in his native Massachusetts, his most recent projects have led him to Haiti and now to Burundi, where he traveled to research his latest work, “Strength in What Remains.” Published just over a month ago, it chronicles the life of Deogratias Niyizonkiza, a 24-year-old medical student from Burundi. Niyozonkoza fled his country...
...Sept. 14, a panel chaired by Nobel Prize-winning economists Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen released a report on behalf of the French government calling for governments to form new measurements of economic vitality that account for factors other than growth. Announcing the panel's findings, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said the current economic crisis provided an opportunity to revise old wisdoms. "A great revolution is waiting for us," he said. "France will fight for all international organizations to modify their statistical methods. The crisis doesn't only make us free to imagine other models. It obliges...
...winners of the Heinz Awards do a bit more than the average person. Recipient Christopher Field is the founding director of the Carnegie Institution's department of global ecology and a biology professor at Stanford University who shared in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. In recent years, Field has become the go-to scientist in his field, the one who perhaps understands - and can explain - best how man-made global warming will change our planet and the life that depends...
...cottonseeds while the rest of the plant keeps its natural defenses. "This research potentially opens the door to utilizing safely the more than 40 million tons of cottonseed produced annually as a large, valuable protein source," says Norman Borlaug, an American agronomist who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for developing high-yield wheat varieties that have helped increase the world's food supply...
...ballers know who the white dude with the salt-and-pepper hair is, and even fewer expect him to last long in the tournament. And yet his team goes on to win every game (20-10, 20-6, 18-9, 20-11, 20-10, etc.) and eventually the grand prize...