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...housing like the DeWolfe complex does not address the underlying problem of crowding; it only shuffles students around. Another proposal noted in the report, to encourage 100 more students to take a semester or year abroad, is even more fanciful. Harvard already balances students leaving to study abroad with transfer admissions, so shipping more students overseas will not help unless the College resolves not to bring in more transfer students. Furthermore, if Harvard is serious about promoting study abroad, it must make it easier for students to obtain credit for foreign study, creating a study-abroad program comparable to other...
...German affiliate during the war don't ring true at all. "IBM says they lost control during the war, but that depends on what you mean by 'war,'" he says. "Certainly after Germany invaded Poland in 1939, they were still very much in control, and even coordinated transfer of equipment from occupied Poland to Romania. Then, after the U.S. and Germany entered a state of war in 1941, IBM arranged to have conservators run the German subsidiary - with the understanding that the profits would be turned over to IBM. So IBM had control in spirit...
...scientists soon discovered, however, that giving away golden rice was not going to be easy. The genes they transferred and the bacteria they used to transfer those genes were encumbered by patents and proprietary rights. Only after extensive negotiations have the two scientists managed to strike a deal with Syngenta, Monsanto and the four other companies that held exclusive licenses to the technologies used by Potrykus and Beyer to create golden rice. In exchange for commercial marketing rights in the U.S. and other affluent markets, the companies recently agreed to donate the technology free to developing countries...
Fallon explains that in the early days, she and her union members felt threatened by Paige. One of his plans was to give principals more authority to transfer teachers to different schools, for staffing or disciplinary purposes. But she was won over by his collaborative leadership style and his ability to get results where his predecessors had failed. Paige promised, for instance, that within three years, he would rid the district of what Fallon calls "deadwood principals"--the system's longtime underperformers. "Some of them came with the first brick in the building," Fallon says. "We figured nothing was going...
...sizable contingent of transfer and visiting students also attended the event, held at the Faculty Club...