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...other committee members—Luc Schuster and Richard Harding—have yet to declare where they stand on the issue. Their votes will determine Fowler-Finn’s fate...
...kipulefti.”But I had heard of “Sayansi,” by which they mean COSTECH, the National Commission on Science and Technology. To be precise, I actually hadn’t heard of it, I had seen it. Its headquarters stand across from a new South African-run luxury hotel. In 2004, when I was last in Tanzania, the Commission’s smudgy grey facade—unclean after a three-decades-long unkempt existence—was apparently deemed to be an unbecoming look given what the agency nominally was.The grime accentuated...
...crusty, withdrawn septuagenarians wearing pocket protectors. Nor is it done by mad scientist types muttering arcane formulae under their breath. But why does much of society have that impression? Perhaps because buried deep in the collective Western psyche, there is an ingrained nervousness, an anxiety toward science. We stand in awe of science, its discoveries, its modern-day miracles that we use every day, that we couldn’t imagine living without. How many of us truly know the physics behind the computers we type at daily, or the biology of Tylenol, which we trust...
...response. This changes the rules of engagement for investors, who are now being denied access to the cheap funds they were putting to work chasing higher-yielding investments in emerging markets or subprime corporate debt. Indeed, stocks and bonds in emerging markets, which soared when money was plentiful, now stand to lose the most - and not just because global liquidity is returning to normal. There is also a chance that a likely slowdown in U.S. consumer demand would crimp the economies of export-led developing countries. China and Mexico would be especially vulnerable, as would the rest of an increasingly...
...Hariri: No, we are very aware of that. All the political parties agreed to stand united against the Israeli aggression. Although some of us think differently about what triggered this, the last thing we need is internal division...