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Sep
27
2006
10:00—12:00 PM
September 18, 2006
Nobel Prize laureate and former World Bank chief economist Joseph Stiglitz will discuss his new book, Making Globalization Work. He offers fresh ideas including a plan to restructure a global financial system made unstable by U.S. debt, ways countries can grow without degrading the environment, and ...
Sep
6
2006
2:00—4:00 PM
August 21, 2006
Starting in the 1950s, Norman Borlaug led an international effort to develop short, fertilizer-responsive grain varieties that became the basis of the Green Revolution, more than doubling harvests and helping to avert famines in much of the developing world, especially Asia. Borlaug has also been a ...