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Haiti’s Emboldened Gangs Could Scuttle Political Solution

Pablo Calderon Martinez, an associate professor of international relations at Northeastern University London, said that Haiti’s crisis had been allowed to fester too long, strengthening the gangs.
The Independent

It’s 2024. Why are we still pitting women against each other?

Speaking to The Independent, Catherine Fairfield, a postdoctoral associate at Northeastern University who teaches women’s studies courses, acknowledged that we follow these romances because it’s just like the everyday gossip in our lives, where we love to hear what others think about each other and how they interact.
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Left Turn: Liberal Bastions Pivot to Tougher Stances on Drugs, Crime

“I would probably characterize it as a backlash,” Leo Beletsky, a professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University, says of the apparent trend, “against some pretty modest reforms that have been promulgated recently.”
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Boston Professor Creates Housing Extension To Keep Trans Students Safe

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‘Fundie Baby Voice’ Seems To Be Everywhere Now. Here’s What You Should Know.

“Vocal modulation through speech is not a novel phenomenon,” said Rebecca Kleinberger, a voice expert and assistant professor of humanics and voice technology at Northeastern University. 
The Oklahoman

Is funding secured for OKC skyscraper project? Is it actually viable? What we know

However, Dellate, along with Jerome Hajjar, a professor at Northeastern College of Engineering in Boston, both said despite concerns about Oklahoma’s location within Tornado Alley, among others, the tower is doable from a structural standpoint.

A colleague’s suicide exposes a crisis among L.A.’s restaurant inspectors

Of the roughly 18,000 “high-risk” food facilities that should have been inspected three times last year…roughly three in 10 — 5,365 —weren’t inspected at all. “It seems like a ridiculously high number,” said national food safety expert Darin Detwiler, who teaches food policy at Northeastern University. “That should never be like that for your high-risk facility.”
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Prioritize Autistic Youth Mental Health Without Panicking Over Technology

Op-ed by Meryl Alper, Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Northeastern University.
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Court upholds town bylaw banning anyone born in 21st century from buying tobacco products

Brookline’s approach only targets the next generation of would-be tobacco users, not current purchasers, according to Mark Gottlieb, executive director of the Public Health Advocacy Institute at Northeastern University’s School of Law, which represented Brookline.
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Local fees imposed on marijuana firms are too high. Now what?

A 2021 analysis of host community agreements done for an industry trade group by Northeastern University professor Jeffrey Moyer found 167 agreements that required donations in addition to community impact fees.
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In Campaign Mode, Biden Challenges GOP on Immigration

Podcast interview with Bilge Erten, associate professor of economics and international affairs at Northeastern University.
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Massachusetts’ highest court upholds novel Brookline rule banning tobacco sales to anyone born this century

Brookline is currently the only place in the world to implement a so-called generational sales ban, and is the first to survive a legal challenge from the tobacco industry on this front, said Mark Gottlieb, executive director of the Public Health Advocacy Institute at Northeastern University’s School of Law, which represented Brookline in the lawsuit.