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...outright, Tsang knows that he needs to go beyond his formal-and narrow-base of support of China's leaders and Hong Kong's business tycoons to win wider public backing in order to get things done. "I think he's sincere," says Chinese University of Hong Kong political scientist Ivan Choy. "But [his] is a difficult job, if not mission impossible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Five More Years | 3/15/2007 | See Source »

...give up when facing public opposition." Yet for an official who declared in his first policy address that his goal was "strong governance," giving up doesn't strike the right tone. "Politically, Donald is more compromising and accommodating than Tung, which is good," says Ma Ngok, a political scientist at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. "But that doesn't meet the public's idea of strong governance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Five More Years | 3/15/2007 | See Source »

...became clear that she had grave neurological problems--she never learned to speak or understand language. "I was very interested already in how things in my mind worked," Hofstadter says. (He speaks very gently and deliberately, as if Mr. Rogers had been a super-intelligent rocket scientist instead of a Presbyterian minister.) "When Molly's unfortunate plight became apparent, it all started getting connected to the physical world. It really made you think about the brain and the self, and how the brain determines who the person...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Year of Mathemagical Thinking | 3/15/2007 | See Source »

...cost you money if you run the process a certain way,” says Visiting Scientist Leith J. Sharp, director of the Harvard Green Campus Initiative. “But if you do it through integrated design, and you have the commitment integrated into the project from day one, it is actually possible not to increase any capital cost...

Author: By Jessica L. Fleischer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Building a Green Future | 3/14/2007 | See Source »

...have already been digitized by the online search-engine company. Google is currently embroiled in lawsuits concerning its scanning of works still under copyright.“My hair was dark brown before I started working on it with the Google people,” the white-haired political scientist told his peers.—Staff writer Johannah S. Cornblatt can be reached at jcornbl@fas.harvard.edu.—Staff writer Samuel P. Jacobs can be reached at jacobs@fas.harvard.edu...

Author: By Johannah S. Cornblatt and Samuel P. Jacobs, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Teaching Report Draws Few Profs | 3/14/2007 | See Source »

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