The Pediatric Intern Retreat

Summer Intern Conference

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Retrospectives on Intern

perspectives on international collaboration in high energy physics: • Gordon Fraser highlights the origins of panEuropean cooperation at CERN and DESY. • Hirotaka Sugawara frankly appraises the Japanese experience and plans for future colliders. • Alexander Skrinsky reviews the increasing reliance on international exchanges in the Russian program. • Zhou Guangzhao explains how international col...

Neuroscience Retreat

Intern Ational Economic Journ Al

Fi rms in the LDCs need to adopt and indige n i ze tra n s fe rred tech n o l ogy befo re u s age. The adoption costs depend on the state of the infra s t ru c t u re and on the l o c a l i zed spillover effects ge n e rated by a rival fi rm. In this context, the pap e r examines the timing of such technological adoption. It shows that strategic decisions regarding time may result in a “waiting...

Record ice retreat

The European Space Agency said that a series of photographs taken through September showed an ice-free passage along northern Canada, Alaska and Greenland as ice was retreating to its lowest level since images were first taken in 1978. The search for a route from the Atlantic around the top of North America and into the Pacific occupied explorers for centuries. Now a growing band of sailing adv...