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...behavior of bees thanks to a $10 million, five-year National Science Foundation Expeditions in Computing Grant. The collaborators, including faculty at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and a number of affiliate institutions, hope the bee models will lead to advances in small scale robotics, power sources and sensors, and biologically-inspired computer programming. The relatively new grant was developed last year by the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering and is awarded to three institutions annually. It funds research rooted in basic science that is of “high risk...
...grand scale of American contributions to the peace process in Northern Ireland, however, Kennedy would probably be eclipsed by George Mitchell - former U.S. special envoy to Northern Ireland and broker of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement - or by Bill Clinton, who took a closer interest in Northern Ireland than had any President before him. Instead, it's Kennedy's subtle yet influential lobbying that has been at the heart of the tributes paid to him in Northern Ireland since his death on Tuesday. (See Kennedy's top 10 legislative battles...
Herpa makes the German equivalent of Matchbox cars, scale models of real cars that can fit snugly in the hands of small children. It bought the rights to the Trabi name years ago and makes a line of Trabis for tiny tots. Now, Herpa wants to market a new Trabi as a retro designer item for a green, fashion-conscious clientele. It plans to unveil a prototype next month at the International Motor Show in Frankfurt. (See the best cars from the 2009 Detroit Auto Show...
...about the "vulnerability" of women in the economy have been disproved by hard BLS data, we want to believe them. When women lose jobs, the victims are women. When men lose jobs, the victims are, um, women, because they have to make up for that lost male income. The scale of male job losses was evident even when the stimulus bill was passed. That did not stop incoming Congressman Jared Polis, a Colorado Democrat, from warning Obama that "gender imbalance in occupations related to physical infrastructure development means that the direct job creation will benefit mostly...
...voted in a referendum to overturn a constitutional two-term limit. Opposition leaders accused Tandja, in office since 1999, of destroying the nation's democratic institutions and voiced their concerns about Niger's possible slip into dictatorship. Tandja defended the move, saying he needed more time to oversee large-scale foreign investments...