Word: lamont
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...hour, with raises each semester a students works. "Labbies" work an average of 10 to 15 hours per week; Connie Cristo, who directs the Lab, says she prefers a commitment of at least eight hours per week. The lab is scheduled to move to the sixth floor of Lamont during this academic year and "labbies" say they've heard rumors of an espresso...
...conditioned building. Any air-conditioned building. And, like the cliche "any port in a storm," you found buildings this summer you hadn't had the opportunity to explore during the year. You checked out the Greek Vase Scholarship exhibit in Houghton Library, discovered the poetry room in Lamont and, of course, were able to be up-to-date on the latest sales...
...been rising so rapidly that they seem likely to equal those of the notorious El Nino of 1982-83, which left 2,000 people dead and $13 billion in economic losses. "That was the biggest El Nino we know of," says climate modeler Stephen Zebiak of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, "until maybe...
...improve the current state of ENSO forecasting, Scripps and Lamont-Doherty have set up an international research institute dedicated to predicting medium-range swings in climate. Already, says climatologist Antonio Moura, the director, he and other scientists have begun to produce experimental forecasts of the probable impact of the ENSO cycle on selected regions. Thus rice, corn and bean farmers in northeast Brazil, say, could, if adequately forewarned, mitigate the effect of El Nino-associated droughts by planting rapidly maturing varieties of seed. The only hitch is that if they switch and a drought does not occur, their crop yields...
After teaching economics at the University of Calcutta, he became a fellow at Trinity. Before coming to Harvard in 1987, Sen held professorships at Delhi University, the London School of Economics and the University of Oxford. He was named Lamont University Professor in Winter...