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...hour before attempting to leave.“He performed nobly,” said former Harvard professor James Q. Wilson, the chair of the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities, which dealt with the disciplinary action stemming from the situation. “He didn’t yield to excessive student demands, but he was perfectly willing to talk to them.”As both a professor and an administrator, May was calm and thoughtful, yet genial in his interactions with others. “He would rarely say 10 words when he could make his point...
...this sense, running more sophisticated regressions on a dataset may appeal more to young economists than searching for the most appropriate use of models or optimizing the balance of qualitative and quantitative insight. The uncertainty surrounding such topics can deter students by their sheer difficulty, even if they may yield more interesting or informative answers.“The ‘arty’ part of it—how can you mix data and judgment—that’s a hard topic,” Stein says.COMMON SENSEAcademicians are increasingly echoing the public call to embrace...
...increasing population, Africa’s farmers have shortened their fallow times, which exhausts soil nutrients. They also expand cropping and grazing onto more erodible lands, cutting more trees and destroying more wildlife habitat. Roughly 70 percent of all deforestation in Africa comes from this expansion of low-yield farming. It would be better if these farmers increased crop yields on land already cleared by applying some nitrogen fertilizer, but that would violate the mystical organic taboo...
...believe that large cohort studies are a proven design that will serve African public health, and could also yield information relevant to the chronic disease epidemic in the US. The bold African Cohort Initiative aspires to fill this knowledge gap, and seeks equally visionary funders to bring studies that have enormously benefited wealthy countries to Africa. The time for action is now, before the problem escalates, so that results can guide successful prevention programs...
...receding in response to signs of stabilization," says an official familiar with Treasury's thinking. And the recent slight rise in interest rates demonstrates nothing except a market beginning to return to normalcy, not one getting spooked by fears of inflation. Consider that so-called TIPS - inflation-protected bonds - yield 1.5% on the five-year bond and just 1.9% on the 10-year. No sign of incipient inflationary panic there. To China and to everyone else watching, the U.S. would cite that as progress - and reasonably...