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Nobody puts baby food in a corner
are pressed for time and don't have alternatives to mushed meals in glass jars. So, after attending business school at Columbia University in New York, Visram drafted a business plan and ultimately launched her own baby food company on Mother's Day in 2006. 5/21/13 from CNN/Money Read more »
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Climate change could bring more heatwave deaths to New York City
wave deaths, pushing up the incidence of temperature-related deaths within decades, researchers say. Scientists at Columbia University in New York have matched daily temperature data for Manhattan with death rates between 1982 and 1999 to estimate how sensitive 5/21/13 from United Press International Read more »
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Asia Society Appoints Josette Sheeran
post as vice chairwoman of the World Economic Forum, will start June 10. Sheeran succeeds Vishakha Desai, who joined Columbia University Jan. 1 as President Lee Bollinger's special advisor for global affairs and as a professor in the school of international 5/21/13 from Art In America Read more »
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Climate Change Will Increase Heat-Related Deaths In NYC, Study Says
heat than it will prevent during winter," lead author Patrick Kinney, a professor of environmental health sciences at Columbia University, told The Guardian. The study did not take into account potential changes in the use of air conditioning, heat alerts 5/21/13 from Popular Science Read more »
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Quiet protest staged at Teachers College graduation
students staged a quiet protest at Columbia University Teachers College commencement ceremonies Tuesday in New York to express their unhappiness with the choice of Merryl Tisch as a speaker and award recipient. The protesters opposed the choice of Tisch, chancellor 5/21/13 from The Washington Post Read more »
