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...figure out time,” he says. Today, Mukhopadhyay says he spends half his time trying to understand processes deep in the Earth’s interior and the other half understanding surface processes. The two, he says, are intimately connected, although perhaps not on a human time scale. In one recent research project, Mukhopadhyay used noble gas concentrations in ocean coral off the coast of Africa as a way of tracking how dust emission rates have changed in response to climate variation. Because the drying of the Northern African Sahel region has caused widespread famine in recent decades...
...that was criticized for not doing enough to curb the spread of SARS, which led to the resignation of the acting health chief, Yeoh Eng-kiong. "While we tragically suffered the 2003 SARS outbreak, it gave us a lot of valuable insight and practical experience in managing a large-scale outbreak," said Gabriel Matthew Leung, Undersecretary for Food and Health, at a news conference in Hong Kong on Monday afternoon. "It certainly prepared us very well for what may come...
...volume of YouTube Edu's content, which includes campus tours and other nonacademic material, can be overwhelming, but the view-count sorting feature helps users quickly locate must-see videos, which they can comment on and rate on a five-star scale...
...hope it works. Pay cuts to avoid layoffs have become increasingly popular in corporate America. It's a choice that oozes compassion (never mind that many of these pay cuts become permanent) and keeps companies poised to quickly scale operations back to full force when the economy rebounds. But that's a big contingency, one that firms trying to do the right thing for both workers and shareholders are starting to trip over...
Patrick is not looking for government intervention to save his business, however. The company's manufacturing business model may seem counterintuitive. In a world where the efficiencies of scale have prompted textilemakers to mass-produce a limited line of goods, Patrick Yarns spins a wide range of products for a diverse group of customers. While a maker of industrial conveyor belts requires a sturdy yarn with minimal flexibility, for example, a safety-apparel manufacturer needs yarn that offers protection from cuts and heat. Patrick spins highly abrasion-resistant yarn for military applications, moisture-absorption and -retention yarn for fiber-optic...