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...Finally, the GDP number reflects the pitiful condition of the U.S. economy at the end of last year and the historical dimension of the current recession," wrote Harm Bandholz, U.S. economist at Unicredit Research, in a note to clients. (See TIME's "25 People to Blame for the Financial Collapse...
...Svalbard vault is just one in a series of investments necessary to ensure that a warmer, more populous world will still be able to feed itself. Funding for global agricultural research has dwindled in recent years, in the wake of the great success of the Green Revolution of the 1950s and '60s, which vastly increased global crop yields through intensive fertilizer use and irrigation. Bananas are one of the most important cash crops in the world, for example, yet Fowler notes that there are just six banana breeders on the planet...
...some of the lessons I learned in the phenomenal success of MGH and apply it in a setting like Yale,” Lynch said. “It was an opportunity that was irresistible.” He said that Yale is making a major investment in cancer research, both in clinical care and translational research, and that he has a once in a lifetime opportunity to lead it. Those who worked with Lynch at Mass. General praised him for both his research and mentorship. “Tom is a one in a million...
Harvard Medical School Professor Edward E. Harlow was awarded $100,000 last Wednesday by the Melanoma Research Foundation to fund his work developing therapeutic approaches to treat melanoma, a skin cancer that kills thousands of Americans each year. The award—the Established Investigator Grant—will support Harlow’s research for two years. Harlow was one of five to be selected from an applicant pool of 60 for this award after a scientific advisory committee looked over all the proposals and chose the most promising ones, according to the Tim Turnham, the foundation?...
...true that the XOs are not survival essentials. At the unveiling of the laptops at the World Economic Forum in 2006, Marthe Dansokho of Cameroon declared that African women who work in the countryside don’t have time to sit with their children and research crops, assuming they’re even literate. But the XO is not a gimmick cure-all. OLPC is not even a laptop program. It’s an education and communication program: the key to smashing cycles of strife. In the long run, this is the right...