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History Professor Caroline Elkins was awarded tenure on July 1 after eight years as an associate professor of African Studies at Harvard. Elkins said she first discovered a “passion” for African history when she took a course on the subject as an undergraduate at Princeton. She said she is drawn to the subject because it provides an “intellectual challenge” and involves “thinking outside the box” to understand the “confluence of so many areas of history...
...either a part of the technological community or you are left out,” Fonseca told the audience. “The digital divide is also a cognitive divide about the capacity to solve problems in your community.” The panelists eagerly took on difficult issues such as the need for a focus on gender in development practices, and the role of the “food first, freedom later” doctrine of society building. “As a student of economics, I always wonder about the mechanics of the technological process...
...three men took a bus from South Station to New York City later that evening...
...head of BCG’s consulting staff and head of one of twelve teams of employees observed in the study. “People are used to working in a certain way. With Leslie’s experiment, she asked us really to behave differently and that took a while to get used to.” The results come as no surprise to proponents of increased time away from employment, such as John de Graaf, national coordinator and founder of Take Back Your Time, an initiative to combat overwork and over-scheduling...
...City of Ruins On my trip to Detroit, I took a long drive around my hometown. Downtown, I visited a lovely new esplanade along the riverfront, two state-of-the-sport stadiums and a classic old hotel restored to modern luxury. In leafy Grosse Pointe, I saw handsome houses anyone would want to live in (and, thanks to the crash of the auto business, available at prices most Americans haven't seen in decades). At the General Motors Technical Center, in the industrial suburb Warren, the parking lots were mostly empty - an awful lot of engineers have been thrown...