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Fifty years after the announcement of the Marshall Plan during a Harvard Commencement address, the University will be the site of a commemorative international symposium...
...symposium will consist of a reception and three panel discussions which will bring together figures from the era and current experts on international development and relations...
...Marshall Plan Symposium is being organized by Charles S. Maier, the Krupp Foundation professor of European Studies at Harvard and the director of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies; and Joseph S. Nye, Jr., the Don K. Price professor of Public Policy and dean of the Kennedy School...
That was one of the questions researchers tried to answer last week at the annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology in New York City, which featured a symposium focusing on the ancient winged creatures known collectively as pterosaurs. Were flying giants such as Quetzalcoatlus carrion eaters, like outsize vultures, as researchers once proposed? Or were they--as Thomas Lehman, of Texas Tech University, and Wann Langston Jr., of the Texas Memorial Museum, convincingly argued last week--more like humongous storks, probing the lake bottoms for tasty tidbits and snaring them with their lancelike beak...
Harvard is planning an international symposium which will be "the centerpiece of next year's Commencement," according to the Harvard News Office...