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...report's conclusion is even more striking, considering the process by which it was reached. The IPCC is a consortium of hundreds of scientists comprised of outspoken environmentalists as well as industry representatives. One of these critics of global warming is Dr. Richard S. Lindzen '60, Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at MIT. Often described as a champion to political conservatives and industrial interests, he has become famous for statements such as "we don't have any evidence that [global warming] is a serious problem." On the basis of his own climate model, Lindzen has so far argued that...
...once but a number of times as their families and job stresses change. More than half of married mothers with children under 18 do not work full time, and nearly half of those do not work at all, according to Linda J. Waite and Mark Nielsen of the Sloan Working Families Center at the University of Chicago. In addition, preliminary data suggest that the number of stay-at-home mothers in certain demographic groups may be increasing. More mothers ages 36 to 40--a period that may include the birth of a second child--are opting for part-time jobs...
Harvard is far from alone in its push to attract students sooner after graduation. On Nov. 8, representatives from MIT's Sloan School of Management, Stanford Business School, the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management and other business schools will join HBS at an outreach event in Boston for undergraduates. A similar event will be held in Los Angeles the next...
JOHN WALKER Stricken with polio at 41, Dorothy Walker Bush's brother quit his surgery practice and became an investment banker. He was also president of Sloan-Kettering's Memorial Hospital in New York City, where ROBIN BUSH was treated for leukemia...
Nobel Laureate Harold E. Varmus--who did graduate work in English at Harvard--has also been mentioned frequently. Formerly the director of the National Institutes of Health, Varmus moved to head the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York at the beginning of this year, prompting some to suggest that he also cannot switch jobs again so quickly...