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Which country presents the biggest threat to stability? Russia, in the view of Stanford University's Joseph Stiglitz, who was Bill Clinton's chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. He summed up the danger: "Small economy. Big country. With nuclear weapons." Over roughly a decade, he said, the number of Russians living below the poverty line has swelled to more than 50% of the population. The rich, meanwhile, still prefer paying bribes to paying their taxes. The 7% growth Russia saw in 2000 came off a severely contracted economic base and was mostly the result of the world spike...
TUNING OUT Aggressive behavior can actually be "unlearned," a Stanford University study finds, if children limit their use of TV, videos and electronic games. After a six-month experiment, researchers report that children who reduced their TV time to seven hours a week and stuck to less-violent videos and games were half as likely as their peers to engage in bellicose playground behavior like taunting and teasing. The most combative kids at the start of the study showed the most behavioral improvement...
...notice any noisy [Harvard]students. The nature of students here at Harvard is different than at schools like Stanford and Duke," Yamins says. "Students here drink behind closed doors--at final clubs, in their rooms...
...held a well-publicized conference on approaches to remedy gender bias at universities across the country last week, one year after its newsletter published an article alleging "pervasive" and "institutional" discrimination against women. Harvard was one of nine universities to participate in the conference, along with Yale and Stanford...
...group is adamant that TWA should be preserved as an independent and financially viable airline," said another spokesman for the group, Stanford E. Lerch. "Our bid is more than twice the size of the nearest offer for TWA that was previously made by American Airlines...