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Director of Risk Communication at the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis at the SPH David P. Ropeik, who was one Harvard-affiliated presenter at the summit, was particularly impressed with the various perspectives included in the conference’s agenda...
Conference organizers said the first summit was so successful that it will be held annually...
...World Congress of Accountants is a summit where 5,000 bean counters meet to discuss the industry's searing issues, like solar vs. battery-powered calculators or the long-awaited switch to No. 3 pencils. Usually it would be the dullest four days this side of, well, a meeting with 5,001 accountants, but thanks to the bookkeeping debacles at kleptocorporations like Enron, once-ignored accountants are suddenly the mysterious bad boys of the corporate world. This year's congress was the perfect chance for the tarnished industry to pick itself up, dust itself off and blame Kenneth...
...might seem overly dramatic to say that life and death hang in the balance in an upcoming summit on intellectual property rights, but in fact, it’s true. Today, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick will be attending a summit on the World Trade Organization’s Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement, and many activist groups, including Oxfam, Student Global Aids Campaign and the Harvard Aids Coalition, are concerned he will push for patent protections. This move would prevent the manufacture of the generic medications that millions of people in the developing world, where patented medicines...
...improve security at streetside Christmas markets, fearing an attack similar to one foiled in Strasbourg last year; rather than spook people with armed police in riot gear, officials in Cologne decided to train plainclothesmen to guard the city's famous holiday market. Officials were especially jittery at the NATO summit in Prague, after two attempts to derail commuter trains ahead of the meeting. The unknown saboteurs were amateurish - they parked a car on the tracks in one instance and planted a homemade bomb in the other - but just to be safe, the government slapped a 30-km/h speed limit...