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Yale, Duke and Columbia among elite schools to settle in price-fixing case
For almost a quarter of a century, a coterie of the nation's most elite universities had a legal shield: They would be exempt from federal antitrust laws when they shared formulas to measure prospective students' financial needs.
Not your daddy’s Freud
In the fall of 2020, Ilan Zechory stepped down as president of Genius, the annotation site he founded with two friends from Yale. After more than a decade at the startup, he could have been forgiven for taking a break.
Now Zechory is hard at work again, though not running another zeitgeisty digital media site. Instead, the 39-year-old is training to be a psychoanalyst.
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Spiros Simitis, leading European data protection expert, dead at 88
Spiros Simitis, a distinguished scholar and expert in the field of data protection, and brother of Greece's former socialist prime minister Costas Simitis, passed away on Saturday, March 18, at the age of 88.
A New Turmoil for the Russian Oil?
Is the market going to be ultimately responsible for crushing the Putin regime through a drastic drop in the price of Russian oil, compared to attempts to limit the price at the international and individual national levels?
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Leon Saltiel: Glimmers of hope in battling Greek antisemitism
By George Gilson
When 44-year-old Leon Saltiel was growing up in the northern port city of Thessaloniki, Greece's second largest, the Jewish community, which once constituted the majority group, remained introverted and did not talk about their Jewishness, even 40 years after the city's Jews were deported and 95 percent of them were exterminated in Auschwitz.
Leon Saltiel: Glimmers of hope in battling Geek anti-Semitism
By George Gilson
When 44-year-old Leon Saltiel was growing up in the northern port city of Thessaloniki, Greece's second largest, the Jewish community, which once constituted the majority group, remained introverted and did not talk about their Jewishness, even 40 years after the city's Jews were deported and 95 percent of them were exterminated in Auschwitz.
World Will Soon Need New Vaccines to Deal with Mutating Virus
The planet could have a year or less before first-generation Covid-19 vaccines are ineffective and modified formulations are needed, according to a survey of epidemiologists, virologists and infectious disease specialists.
Athens University teams up with Yale for Covid-19 treatment drug
Researchers from the University of Athens who spearheaded a successful clinical trial into the effects of colchicine in the prevention of complications caused by Covid-19, have teamed up with colleagues at Yale to carry on studying the benefits of the anti-inflammatory drug that was recently approved in Greece and other countries for treating the novel coronavirus.
Young Bulgarian Scholars Contribute to World Scientific Progress
At a time when we are becoming increasingly aware of the crucial importance of science for the protection of human health and for the global development, we would like to remind you of some of the meetings radio Bulgaria has had during the year with young Bulgarian scholars who a significant contribution to science.
Greek A-team in the coronavirus battle: Mount Sinai’s Antonis Charokopos
The coronavirus pandemic for many Greeks was a belated introduction to the constellation of highly distinguished doctors, scientists, and researchers both in Greece and in ecumenical Hellenism from the US to Switzerland.