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From Groceries to Cars, Tariffs Could Raise Prices for U.S. Consumers

How quickly firms are willing and able to raise their prices remains to be seen, Peter Simon, an economics professor at Northeastern University, said Saturday. 
El Pais

Trump’s difficult squaring of the circle: seeking a weaker dollar while promising tariffs

“The real effect of the incoming Administration on the exchange rate will depend on the extent to which it follows through on its threat to impose tariffs,” summarizes by email Robert Triest, professor of Economics at Northeastern University.
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‘TikTok could malfunction’: app’s future in limbo as it remains off US app stores

“This means that parties other than the DoJ and attorney general, for example, privates, might be able to sue companies for non-compliance with the ban or divest mandate,” says Elettra Bietti, an assistant law professor at Northeastern University.
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The Man Who Took On Big Tobacco Has a New Target: Sports Betting

To Richard Daynard, president of the Public Health Advocacy Institute (PHAI) at Northeastern University’s law school, such language deflects from gambling’s heavy social toll.
CBC News

In China, I was told grades were everything. Dragon boating in Canada taught me to enjoy the ride

Op-ed by Xin Qi, an international computer science student at Northeastern University’s Vancouver campus.
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Why nobody can see inside AI’s black box

“When people want to solve Parkinson’s, they know that understanding the mechanism allows them to target specific processes,” says Northeastern University assistant professor of computer science David Bau. 
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Trump Border Czar Responds to Selena Gomez: ‘No Apologies’

Costas Panagopoulos, professor of political science at Northeastern University, previously to Newsweek: “If things start to spiral out of control and the press is inundated with stories of family separations and other ways it’s affecting Americans who may support those policies now, it could conceivably change their minds or at least nuance their opinions. It could backfire […]
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What an Undervaccinated America Would Look Like

But for all measles’ speed, “I would place a bet on whooping cough being first,” Samuel Scarpino, an infectious-disease modeler at Northeastern University, told me.
NBC News

How the Kansas City Chiefs became the villains in their playoff battle with the Buffalo Bills

“Yeah, that data — that data’s not helping” dispel conspiracy theories, said Nicolette Aduama, the senior associate director of the Center for the Study of Sport in Society at Northeastern University in Boston.
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Request to testify before Congress on immigration puts Boston — and Michelle Wu — back in national GOP’s crosshairs

Hemanth C. Gundavaram, cofounder and director of the Immigrant Justice Clinic at Northeastern University School of Law, said that while the mayors being targeted run cities with relatively strong protections for immigrants, the focus of the committee seems to be more on their personalities.
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‘Severance’ shows we long to leave work behind

The Victorian era normalised work-life separation, points out Sam Waterman, assistant professor of English at Northeastern University. As industrialisation cleaved the workplace from home, a domestic sphere overseen by women became a romanticised space for men to retreat and restore themselves.
The Times UK

Prime Target: maths genius adds realism to Apple’s new thriller

In an effort to make the eight-part show as authentic as possible, producers drafted in Dr Tim Davis, mathematics lecturer at Northeastern University London, to help write the script and coach the stars.