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Climenko Professor of Law Charles J. Ogletree Jr. apologized for what he calls “serious errors” in his book All Deliberate Speed in a Sept. 3 statement, following an investigation by former Harvard President Derek C. Bok and former HLS Dean Robert C. Clark...
...discovered that meteors do not come from far-flung stars, but the Earth's solar system. He was an inventor as well. Anticipating space flight, he invented in 1946 a thin outer skin of metal known as a meteor bumper or Whipple shield, intended to protect spacecraft from high-speed particles. The device is still in use today...
...Manhattan is still not the same as it was. Yes, it has pulled back from the precipice with remarkable speed. But jobs are missing, the kinds of jobs that have historically made it more resilient than other U.S. cities. So far, the recovery has been in tourism and health care. Good jobs but not fantastic - not Wall Street jobs, that...
...economists in Asia are keeping one eye fixed on oil prices, the other on China. Second-quarter GDP numbers showed the economy is still growing at a blistering 9.6% per year. But Morgan Stanley's Xie warns that "China can't grow at this speed when oil prices are this high." China's annual oil bill is running at $89 billion, or 5.3% of GDP, twice as high as the global average, says Xie, who worries that if oil prices remain above $30 per barrel, growth rates will inevitably be hit. "They have to slow down," Xie says. "There...
...Manhattan is still not the same as it was. Yes, it has pulled back from the precipice with remarkable speed. But jobs are missing, the kinds of jobs that have historically made it more resilient than other U.S. cities. So far, the recovery has been in tourism and health care. Good jobs but not fantastic--not Wall Street jobs, that...