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...chubby Armenian charmer, Gacic Ter-Oganisyan, whom she had met while studying Russian at university. But the marriage triggered a chain of improbable events which eight years later unleashed the whirlwind of death, imperialism, civil war, oil, gangsterism and nationalist struggle that is otherwise known as the North Caucasus upon sleepy Woking...
...time to develop a response. C. Mahalingam, chief people officer at software solutions provider Symphony Services, says the IT sector needs to evolve a long-term solution. "What we need to do more is to train and educate employees to expand their zone of comfort, and to draw upon their inner resources," he says. "We're taking in all these brilliant Mensa Club types, and we must provide them with a better support system so they can perform...
...debacle that followed Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. But few places are less prepared than the isolated, desperately poor nation of 53 million that is Burma. Ruled by a clique of reclusive generals since 1962, Burma, also known as Myanmar, has degenerated from a resource-rich country that upon independence from the British 60 years ago was hailed as a model for modern Asia into an economic disaster zone. So paranoid are members of the junta about any outside influence that in recent years they have severely curtailed movements by foreign aid groups, forcing several organizations, including the International Committee...
...Crimson editorialist Andrew D. Fine ’09 likewise sounded the tocsin. Pleading before the UC not to pass their aforementioned resolution, Fine—as paraphrased in The Crimson—deemed it incumbent upon the University to “pressure” the military into ending DADT, and thus imperative to exclude the commissioning ceremony from campus...
...used to be reaching out to the public was something that scientists looked down upon,” said Bruce V. Lewenstein, a communications professor at Cornell who specializes in how the public understands science. “But that has been changing in the last decade, and there has been a lot of pressure for scientists to be more active in outreach...