Word: tooled
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...fact, there is no mass-mail effort as part of the campaign. Rather, the slick booklet which outlines “The Case” is meant as a tool for HBS staff meeting with alumni—a way to walk them through the process and goals of the campaign...
...Thanks to this year's chemistry Nobel laureates, that's a lot easier than it used to be. In the late 1980s, John Fenn, 85, of Virginia Commonwealth University, and Koichi Tanaka, 43, of Shimadzu Corp. in Kyoto, Japan, independently invented techniques that extended a common analytical tool called mass spectrometry - that is, sorting by mass - to much bigger and more complex molecules than had ever been possible. Among many other things, their work has led to new diagnostic tests for ovarian, breast and prostate cancers and for malaria, and earned the pair half of the approximately $1million prize...
...other half goes to Kurt W?thrich of, 64, of Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego. Like Tanaka and Fenn, W?thrich took an existing high-tech tool and refined it for use on organic molecules. In this case, the technology was nuclear magnetic resonance (better known in its medical diagnostic form as MRI). It works by bathing a lab sample or a human body with electromagnetic energy and carefully measuring how the atoms and molecules respond. It?s not all that difficult when you?re looking for something big - a tumor inside...
...Before, the only tool we could use was a rally or an editorial," says Rita Hamad, a senior at Harvard, where a divestment petition with M.I.T. has attracted 565 signatures. "Now we have [divestment], which might actually make a difference." (Activists claim that Harvard has more than $600 million invested in companies that have interests in Israel.) Some of the divestment activists come from the anti-globalism movement or from campus groups for Muslim students. A few of the groups, like those at the University of Michigan and U.C. Berkeley, take pains to point out that they have Jewish students...
However, given the history of the divestment strategy and its earlier target, the claim that only the policies of the Sharon government are targeted here seems strikingly naive. As we learn from the precedent of South Africa, divestment is a tool far too powerful and destructive to express opposition to a set of specific policies in any focused way (apartheid was much too pervasive a political and social phenomenon to be called a policy). Rather, the divestment strategy was aimed at the very foundations of a morally repugnant state. Whatever the intent of the signers, the strategy chosen cannot help...