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...work is seasonal on the freezing-cold island), the NEEM researchers hope to harvest cores that will help them track the state of the ice throughout that era, when Greenland was warm enough to actually be green. Dahl-Jensen believes that with enough information, they will be able to project forward and understand just how vulnerable Greenland is to future melting. "With 10 years of intense research, I think we can reach a reliable estimate for that tipping point," she says...
...would run out and find another doctor,” Fryer said in an interview with The New York Times. “Somehow, in education, that approach is O.K.”But at least one scholar in the field, Gary Orfield of the Civil Rights Project at UCLA, questioned Fryer’s failure to acknowledge existing education research efforts.“What worries me about some of the public statements by Prof. Fryer is the kind of sloppy over-generalizations, lack of attentiveness to other research, and confidence that he can understand the core...
...nascent school is already attracting attention after a year, but according to Venky it will be a decade-long project to transform Harvard into a preeminent engineering school...
...long, involved process of preparing the objects in the museum for transport to the off-site location where they’ll be stored during renovations. “It’s safe to say that it’s a very well-orchestrated and very complex project,” says Daron J. Manoogian, the Harvard Art Museums’ spokesman. The Fogg has over 260,000 works in its collection, though this number includes every ancient coin and paper drawing. Still, it’s easy to understand why the sheer number of objects to be moved...
...Under a five-year pilot project called Purchase for Progress, the foundations will help 350,000 or so small farmers in 21 countries, most of them in Africa, to grow food for the U.N.'s World Food Program, the biggest food aid distributor in Africa. Rather than simply buying the farmers' crops outright, much of the money will go to teaching better farming methods, and to helping them store their crops in warehouses, plant higher-yield seeds, and transport their produce to customers. Those are all serious obstacles for poor farmers, many of whom find it almost impossible...