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Consultants on diversity insist that the training they give has value. R. Roosevelt Thomas, founder of the American Institute for Managing Diversity, says corporate America must first redefine the word. "Diversity means differences and similarities," he says, be they in race, gender or corporate culture. He teaches executives to focus on skills and not familiarity. "In a foxhole, I want someone who can shoot," he says. "I don't care where they're from. Some folks have to be reminded of that...
...Women’s rights in America are really abysmal under the law.” “I think we are all really upset about the opinion and there wasn’t really a public forum” in which to question the decision, said Joanna R. Pozen, a student at the Harvard School of Public Health. Rachel Wainer Apter, a third-year at the Law School, said that “having a spectacle funeral as our last class was appropriate.” Benshoof lamented what she sees as the lack of attention paid...
...been highly regarded in her field and widely praised for MIT’s efforts to reduce student anxiety in college admissions. Her profile surged last year with the publication of “Less Stress, More Success,” which she wrote with a pediatrician, Kenneth R. Ginsburg...
...study of neurotransmitters and of gene treatments developed for the rats could lead to more effective drug rehabilitation medicine in the very near future, she said. “The old methods have been...to give treatment that reduces the reward from drugs,” said Evins. Nicolas R. Bolo, an investigator at the neuroimaging center at Harvard’s McLean Hospital, said he agreed that research at the Brookhaven National Laboratory could lead to new drug treatments. “I think we will [see them] because of that better understanding,” he said...
...fundamentally a “controllable disease.” Still, scientists and physicians face major obstacles such as the rapid evolution of drug resistance. But Wirth said new strides are being made as a result of emerging collaborations across the University and at the Broad Institute. Barry R. Bloom, the dean of HSPH, opened the conference to a standing-room only crowd of about 60 scientists and students. Bloom said Africa Malaria Day commemorates the 2000 signing of a declaration at which African heads of state committed to reducing malaria deaths. Yesterday was also National DNA Day. Speakers...