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...scholar like Ohanian, who handwrites everything from her day’s schedule to essays before committing them to computer, paper matters. She has lime green notebooks with neon-lined paper in her room, an homage to pink and Spanish flamenco dancers. The books themselves are made in Spain, and at some specialty stores can cost...
...would the Hermit Kingdom decide to throw open its doors to foreign cameras? Some experts think it's part of an effort by the regime to soften its image abroad. "The North Koreans are desperate for good publicity," says Aidan Foster-Carter, a Korea scholar at Leeds University in Britain. "Since they're incredibly bad at [p.r.] themselves, it makes sense to have foreigners do it for them." Director Daniel Gordon suggests that the project was authorized by Kim Jong Il himself. "Permission for something like this must have come from the very top," he says. Despite his unprecedented access...
Joshua W. Busby, a research fellow at the Kennedy School of Government’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, tried out Google Scholar over the weekend and called it a “decent first effort...
Busby said he typically uses JSTOR and Proquest for research, but said that he expects to use Scholar again in the future. He said that the technology could be improved if it allowed the user to search within specific academic fields, like political science...
Professor of Psychology Marc D. Hauser said he briefly used Scholar and was encouraged by what...