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- 'A Princeton Christmas: For the Children of Africa'
- To: NATIONAL EDITORSContact: Tom Meagher of A Princeton Christmas, +1-908-907-3377; or Maria Reppas, of Friends of the World Food Program, +1-202-530- 1694 x111, mreppas@friendsofwfp.org Hundreds of Princeton Students Harmonize to Help Hungry Children in AfricaAmerican Boychoir among performing groups on debut A Princeton Christmas album; Available starting November 14PRINCETON, N.J.,...
- Research articles 2007-11-14
- Feeding the World: An Economic History of Agriculture, 1800-2000.(Book review)
- Feeding the World: An Economic History of Agriculture 1800-2000. By Giovanni Federico. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005. Pp. vii, 416. $45.00.) This ambitious book, written from the perspective of an economic historian, sets out to provide an evaluation of the reasons for the...
- Research articles 2007-06-22
- Using a theoretical ecospace to quantify the ecological diversity of Paleozoic and modern marine biotas
- Abstract.- The process of evolution hinders our ability to make large-scale ecological comparisons-such as those encompassing marine biotas spanning the Phanerozoic-because the compared entities are taxonomically and morphologically dissimilar. One solution is to focus instead on life habits, which are repeatedly discovered by taxa because of convergence. Such an approach...
- Research articles 2007-04-01
- Symbol of postwar Germany has settled in at Princeton
- There is no advance staff whispering urgently into cell phones, no security or receptionist, as Joschka Fischer, clad in a tweed jacket, slips from his Princeton University office to greet visitors. Time was when Fischer, a former 1960s radical who battled riot police in the streets of Frankfurt, strode the...
- Research articles 2006-12-27
- Chowing down on campus
- It's taco day at the Rockefeller dining hall at Princeton University, which is good. And bad. Good because who doesn't love a good sloppy taco? Not to mention that fluorescent-orange nacho cheese sauce. Bad because tacos are precisely the sort of campus offering that might lead students to pile their...
- Research articles 2006-11-16
- Feeding the World: An Economic History of Agriculture, 1800-2000
- Feeding the World: An Economic History of Agriculture, 1800-2000, by Giovanni Federico. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press. 2005. Cloth, ISBN 069112051X, $45.00. 416 pages. From 1800 to 1900, world population doubled from around 800 million to about 1.6 billion. Nevertheless world food production increased faster than population so...
- Research articles 2006-09-01
- The Coolest Little Start-Up in America
- The first time Eric Smith laid eyes on Tom Szaky, in April 2005, he felt a shiver of panic. Oh, my God, Smith thought. What have I gotten myself into? There they were, about to meet with Home Depot's global product merchant, John Fuller, a guy who could make...
- Research articles 2006-07-01
- The incredible shrinking iguana.
- Byline: Sally Palmer May 23, 2006 (New Scientist - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Researchers are studying changes in the size of Galapagos marine iguanas. Ecologist Martin Wikelski of Princeton University noticed that the size of the iguanas varied from year to year. ...
- Research articles 2006-05-23
- Local Focus.(Business)
- Noted McBoard member steps down OAK BROOK - McDonald's Corp. announced that Dr. Anne-Marie Slaughter, one of two women on the fast food company's board of directors, will step down effective Friday. A McDonald's spokeswoman said Slaughter resigned "because of scheduling difficulties due...
- Research articles 2006-03-30
- Brookings Future of Children Event Announcement: Childhood Obesity
- News Advisory: WHAT: Future of Children Event Announcement: Childhood Obesity WHEN: Tuesday, March 14, 9 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. WHERE: Falk Auditorium, The Brookings Institution, 1775 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20036 Over the past three decades, the share of children who are overweight or obese has doubled to nearly...
- Research articles 2006-03-06
- A Social History of Soviet Trade: Trade Policy, Retail Practices, and Consumption, 1917-1953.(Book review)
- A Social History of Soviet Trade: Trade Policy, Retail Practices, and Consumption, 1917-1953. By Julie Hessler. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. Pp. xvi, 366. $39.50.) This richly researched study of Soviet trade in the early years of Communist power draws on a wide range...
- Research articles 2005-12-22
- Aims to put engine maker on right track.(John Hamilton)(Brief Article)
- Byline: Bob Tita Job: President and CEO, La Grange-based locomotive maker Electro-Motive Diesel EMD, since April. Vitals: 46 years old; bachelor's degree in engineering and computer science, Princeton University, 1981; MBA, University of Chicago, 1986. Former president and CEO, Tokheim Corp.;...
- Research articles 2005-08-01
- Paul Newman angry over Princeton booze fest
- NEW YORK AFP ? Movie legend Paul Newman has complained to prestigious Princeton University about a tradition called "Newman's Day," when students try to drink 24 beers in 24 hours. In a letter sent to the university and quoted in the Daily Princetonian, Newman's attorney said the actor was...
- Research articles 2004-04-22
- meiji modernization, SCIENTIFIC AGRICULTURE, AND THE DESTRUCTION OF JAPAN'S HOKKAIDO WOLF
- THE MEIJI RESTORATION of 1868 ranks among the most important events in Japanese history. Basically, after over two and a half centuries of samurai rule, the Tokugawa shogunate (bakufu; literally, a military-style "tent government" run by the shogun) fell to what historians call the Satcho alliance-essentially, a political and military...
- Research articles 2004-04-01
- Blood money: Gettysburg's status as a national symbol is inseparable from its commercial success
- Gettysburg: Memory, Market; and an American Shrine, by Jim Weeks, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 288 pages, $29.95 IN JULY 1863, the Army of Northern Virginia under Gen. Robert E. Lee and the Army of the Potomac under Gen. George G. Meade met in battle in and around the quiet...
- Research articles 2004-03-01
- Candy choices reveal secrets of the universe.(usage of candy to investigate physical and mathematical principles)(Brief Article)
- PRINCETON, NJ -- M&M's were used to investigate the physical and mathematical principles in play when panicles are poured randomly into a vessel. The question of how particles pack together has been a scientific problem since the 16th century, and the findings have implications in the...
- Research articles 2004-03-01
- Dr. Peter J. Turchi
- DR. PETER J. TURCHI Dr. Peter J. Turchi, is Senior Scientist for High-Power Microwaves and Pulsed Power, Air Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M. Dr. Turchi guides, advises and conducts Air Force research and development activities in high energy-density pulsed power, plasma and directed energy systems. He...
- Research articles 2004-01-01
- Fast foodies up for fat pay-outs.
- Jul 14, 2003 (The Mercury - ABIX via COMTEX) New research indicates that "junk food" may be as addictive as cigarettes or heroin. The findings could facilitate major lawsuits against the fast food industry. The industry has previously defended legal claims by arguing individuals...
- Research articles 2003-07-14
- A new species of Amaurospiza blue seedeater from Venezuela
- ABSTRACT.-At regular intervals throughout 2001, a unit from the Phelps Ornithological Collection assisted a biological survey along the Rio Caroni in Venezuela, north and downstream of the Embalse de Guri. One of the expeditions was to Isla Carrizal at 07[degrees]54'N, 63[degrees]04'W, a large uninhabited island thickly covered with groves of...
- Research articles 2003-07-01
- Unspeakable conversations or how I spent one day as a token criple at Princeton University
- He insists he doesn't want to kill me. He simply thinks it would have been better, all things considered, to have given my parents the option of killing the baby I once was, and to let other parents kill similar babies as they come along and thereby avoid the suffering...
- Research articles 2003-04-01
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