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...front of his cavalry for about 12 hours and explains the slide show presentation he gives in the movie. The volunteers are not required to follow a set script, but Gore offers specific advice on how to engage the audience and use metaphors to explain complex scientific information. A scientist on Gore's staff is present during the training to answer any technical questions posed by the volunteers, and a professional speech trainer offers public speaking advice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Al Gore's Foot Soldiers | 1/31/2007 | See Source »

...news is that civil wars in places like these tend to last a long time and very often recur. According to Stanford political scientist James D. Fearon, the average post-1945 civil war has lasted more than a decade. In effect, the cycle of violence becomes a way of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Reality of Civil War | 1/25/2007 | See Source »

...Many people are probably familiar with the fact that Tom Cech is a Nobel Prize winning scientist and a highly effective president of HHMI,” Liu says. “But they may not realize that he is also very passionate about educating students...

Author: By Stephanie S. Garlow, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Iowa Values’ for Mass. Hall? | 1/19/2007 | See Source »

...once secluded in a complex filing system, but they're also out of sight and therefore out of mind. Those with messy desks often stumble upon serendipitous connections between disparate documents. Don't believe there's a benefit? According to Abrahamson and Freedman, desk-paper mess helped Nobel-prizewinning scientist Earl Sutherland discover how hormones regulate cells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Messy is the New Neat | 1/18/2007 | See Source »

...When physicist Lisa Randall spoke about string theory at a Radcliffe donor dinner, Faust gave “an introduction that sounded so scientifically literate that someone who really knows the field thought it had been written by a scientist,” Grosz recalls...

Author: By Claire M. Guehenno, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Deft Historian May Be Harvard's Future | 1/12/2007 | See Source »

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