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...working behind the scenes to basking in the limelight. She has brought a collegial atmosphere to the Chancellery that is proving wildly popular. "Suddenly a woman in black enters the stage without any pomp or circumstance and talks in a quite straightforward manner - analytically," says Gerd Langguth, a political scientist at Bonn University. "People like that." Cabinet meetings are more open and less hierarchical than they were in Schröder's day, though Merkel can be ruthless with long-winded colleagues. "When I met her alone it was like meeting a leading business figure," SAP's Kagermann tells Time...
There are still no students or Harvard faculty members on the nine-person presidential search committee unveiled yesterday. The committee comprises the six members of the Harvard Corporation—the University’s highest governing board—as well as an art historian, a computer scientist, and a trial lawyer, all three of whom serve on the Corporation’s sister body, the Board of Overseers...
...University’s newly-unveiled nine-person presidential search committee will include an art historian, a computer scientist, and a trial lawyer, along with six Harvard Corporation members...
...naturally, is central to understanding the Arctic. In the physics of climate change, the ice cover on the water is far more important than the air temperature above it. "Phase change--when there's ice--is really the key," says Rob Macdonald, a Department of Fisheries and Oceans research scientist who studies carbon and contaminant cycling...
...Earth's climate system are boosting the ferocity of tropical cyclones. Says Melbourne-based climate expert Professor Ian Simmonds: "Progressively you are creating an environment which is going to encourage more intense cyclones. In terms of statistics they are becoming less frequent but more intense.'' Simmonds and Brazilian scientist Alexandre Pezza last year published a groundbreaking paper arguing global warming had contributed to the appearance of the first documented tropical cyclone in the South Atlantic...