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College can wait awhile: Worn-out high school seniors are getting fresh encouragement from a range of sources to take a break -- a "gap year" -- before plunging into college. But to be beneficial, it needs to involve more than rest and relaxation. This spring, high schools in seven metropolitan...; Tags: CAREER, Princeton University, U.S.; Research articles 2008-06-19
Modernism and the city: From Cause to Style: Modernist Architecture's Encounter with the American City by Nathan Glazer. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, USA, 2007 300 pp, index. Price US$24.95. Nathan Glazer traces the trajectory of a modernism that began with a commitment to the poor against the architectural forms representative of an...; Tags: Princeton University, Strategy, U.S.; Research articles 2008-03-01
Princeton Project on National Security Set to Lead U.S. Foreign Policy: Report Cites Most Prolific Threats to U.S. National Security, Offers Sweeping Changes to Foreign Policy PRINCETON, N.J. -- The Princeton Project on National Security, an effort spearheaded by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, today unveiled a bipartisan national security strategy for the...; Tags: democracy, Princeton University, SECURITY, U.S.; Research articles 2006-09-27
Economic Opportunity the Focus of Latest Issue of Brookings, Princeton Future of Children Journal ; Education Reforms Needed to Improve Intergenerational Mobility: WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The United States provides less opportunity for people to move up and down the economic ladder than most people believe, according to research published in the fall issue of "The Future of Children." The volume, "Opportunity in America," released today by the Brookings Institution...; Tags: Brookings Institution, education, mobility, Princeton University, U.S.; Research articles 2006-09-19
Ignatieff, Michael, ed.: American Exceptionalism and Human Rights.(Book review): Ignatieff, Michael, ed. American Exceptionalism and Human Rights Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press 392 pp., $75.00 cloth, $24.95 paper ISBN 0-6911-1647-4 cloth ISBN 0-6911-1648-2 paper Publication Date: June 2005 This edited volume explores the way in which the United States is ...; Tags: cloth, Leadership, Princeton University, U.S.; Research articles 2006-01-01

Magnesium-carbon-nickel wire could bridge gap between superconductor theories.(Superconductors): US researchers have made a wire that--although not a high-temperature superconductor itself--could help them to understand the mechanisms of high-temperature superconductivity. Made from a magnesium-carbon-nickel (Mg[Cni.sub.3]) compound layered around a carbon fibre, it has a similar crystal structure to the cuprates, although it...; Tags: C, compound, Princeton University, professor, researcher, team, theory, U.S.; Research articles 2005-01-01
Ogden, Utah, runner retains his title as nation's fastest corporate executive.: By Jeff DeMoss, Standard-Examiner, Ogden, Utah Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 9--Mike Spence came to Ogden last year to train for steeplechasing under world renowned coach Chick Hislop, who also happens to be the Weber State University track and field coach. ...; Tags: CAREER, Fax, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Princeton University, U.S., Utah; Research articles 2004-10-09
Rower transformed by work at Ground Zero: During his darkest moments, in the weeks and months following the 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, Jason Read wondered why he had even bothered getting up in the mornings. An eight-time member of the U.S. national rowing team and chief of the Amwell Valley Rescue Squad...; Tags: Government, Jason, Princeton University, team, U.S.; Research articles 2004-07-22
U.S. ITER Project Office will be Located at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory: WASHINGTON, July 13 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The U.S. Department of Energy announced today that the U.S. project office for ITER, a major international fusion experiment, will be located at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory PPPL. PPPL is located on Princeton University's James Forrestal Campus in Plainsboro, NJ, and is...; Tags: FINANCE, fusion, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Princeton University, secretary, SOFTWARE, U.S.; Research articles 2004-07-13
Cover change.(WeatherFront)(wilderness): A new study suggests that changes in land cover over the past three centuries have affected summer-time temperature and precipitation in the United States. Somnath Baidya Roy, Princeton University; George Hurtt, University of New Hampshire; Christopher Weaver, Rutgers University; and Stephen Pacala, Princeton University, found that...; Tags: agriculture, Princeton University, PRODUCTIVITY, U.S.; Research articles 2004-07-01
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...; Tags: agriculture, Government, Japan, Manufacturing, pasture, Princeton University, Sapporo, SOFTWARE, Tokyo, U.S.; Research articles 2004-04-01
Summer Climate Responds to Changes in Land Cover: PRINCETON, New Jersey ENS ? Climate is affected by carbon dioxide emissions, aerosols and other atmospheric factors, and now new research shows that land surface changes also play a role. The study of summer climate in the United States reported changes in land cover have altered regional temperatures and precipitation....; Tags: Great Plains Software, Princeton University, PRODUCTIVITY, U.S.; Research articles 2004-03-26
Recent Books on International Relations: Political and Legal G. John Ikenberry The Purpose of Intervention: Changing Beliefs About the Use of Force. by Martha Finnemore. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003, 192 pp. $26.00. In this superb inquiry into the reasons states use force abroad, Finnemore looks at...; Tags: analysis, Bernstein, Books, China, democracy, Government, Iraq, Jenkins, Princeton University, Russia, terrorism, U.S.; Research articles 2004-01-01
Understanding the Bush doctrine.: The invasion of Iraq, although important in itself, is even more noteworthy as a manifestation of the Bush doctrine. In a sharp break from the President's pre-September 11 views that saw American leadership, and especially its use of force, restricted to defending narrow and traditional vital interests, he has enunciated...; Tags: America, Bush, democracy, Government, Iraq, president, Princeton University, Saddam, SECURITY, U.S.; Research articles 2003-09-22
Publications received - Bibliography: Economic and social statistics Byrne, David, Interpreting Quantitative Data. Thousand Oaks, CA, Sage Publications, 2002, 176 pp., $73/hardcover; $25/softcover. Cockburn, Iain M., Samuel Kortum and Scott Stem, Are All Patent Examiners Equal? The Impact of Characteristics on Patent Statistics and Litigation Outcomes. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic...; Tags: Cambridge, Labor, Princeton University, U.S.; Research articles 2002-11-01
Bold Relief: Institutional Politics and the Origins of Modem American Social Policy - Reviews: Bold Relief: Institutional Politics and the Origins of Modem American Social Policy. By Edwin Amenta (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. xiii plus 343 pp. $19.95). Three decades ago, when I plunged into graduate studies, one of the more tantalizing promises made by advocates of the so-called "new" social history...; Tags: Components, HARDWARE, Modems, Princeton University, READERS, theory, U.S.; Research articles 2002-09-22
Recent Books.: Recent Books on International Relations AFRICA GAIL M. GERHART Our Votes, Our Guns: Robert Mugabe and the Tragedy of Zimbabwe. by MARTIN MEREDITH. New York: PublicAffairs, 2002, 243 pp. $26.00. This unvarnished account of Mugabe's political career explains why...; Tags: Arab, Books, China, democracy, Government, Happiness, Johnson, Leadership, president, Princeton University, Robert, sanction, SECURITY, SOFTWARE, Terror, Thatcher, U.S., violence; Research articles 2002-09-01
Fighting the Hessian fly: American and British responses to insect invasion, 1776-1789: (ProQuest Information and Learning: Deletions showns by "strike-through" in the original text are ommited.) The origin of the name was quite specific. In 1788, George Morgan-colonel in the Revolution, member of the American Philosophical Society, and gentleman-farmer in New Jersey-explained to British consul-general John Temple: "The name of Hessian Fly...; Tags: America, Atlantic, bank, bond, England, Europe, FINANCE, food, grain, Investment, London, Manufacturing, Morgan, Philadelphia, Princeton University, Temple, U.S.; Research articles 2002-07-01
The ends of human rights. (book review): Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry By Michael Ignatieff, with contributions by K. Anthony Appiah, David A. Hollinger, Thomas W. Laqueur, and Diane F. Orentlicher. Edited and introduced by Amy Gutmann. Princeton University Press, 187 pages, $19.95 IS THE WORLD MOVING FORWARD...; Tags: Government, Princeton University, SOFTWARE, Strategy, U.S.; Research articles 2002-06-17
Thomas, Daniel C. The Helsinki Effect: International Norms, Human Rights, and the Demise of Communism.(Brief Article): Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press 308 pp., $49.50 cloth, $18.95 paper ISBN 0-691-04858-4 cloth ISBN 0-691-04859-2 paper Publication Date: September 2001 In The Helsinki Effect: International Norms, Human Rights, and the Demise of Communism, Daniel C. Thomas presents a powerful and compelling...; Tags: cloth, FINANCE, NETWORKING, Princeton University, U.S.; Research articles 2002-03-22