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Climate change has a $150B economic toll. The Fed should treat it like other national crises

Jennie C. Stephens is Dean’s professor of sustainability science and policy, Northeastern University. 
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The Most Dangerous Foods You Can Bring To A Holiday Potluck

“Those are the ones who are the most likely to become sick enough to be taken to the hospital,” said Dr. Darin Detwiler, a professor of food policy and corporate social responsibility at Northeastern University and author of ”Food Safety: Past, Present, and Predictions.”
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Is Haley getting the coverage she deserves?

A report by Storybench, a publication by Northeastern’s journalism school, found that news articles from mainstream publications used a smaller percentage of positive words in stories about the female candidate’s campaigns — and used more words associated with their scandals. 
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Sandra Day O’Connor Broke Legal Profession’s Glass Ceiling

Her unique career makes it difficult to slap a simple, straightforward label that puts her “in a box” or defines her as a feminist, said Wendy Parmet, a Northeastern University law professor, who co-authored a 1999 Indiana Law Review study of O’Connor’s legacy on women’s rights issues.

Smaller Airlines Seek Mergers to Compete With Industry Giants

“Smaller competitors, typically, are the one that breaks ranks,” said John Kwoka, an economics professor at Northeastern University and an antitrust expert who has advised states and the Justice Department on airline mergers. 
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How Democrats can neutralize Trump’s attempts to define them

George G. Adams is College of Engineering Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Northeastern University.  
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If AI steers a doctor wrong, who pays?

“You really need to tailor the policies to the place that you are, knowing what the socio-demographic of the population is, what the employment in your region is, understand what the feedback effects between different activities are,” said Matteo Chinazzi, one of the study authors and a research associate professor at Northeastern University’s Roux Institute […]
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Another Taylor Swift course is coming to Boston, this time at Northeastern University

Beginning this January, Northeastern University students can delve into Taylor Swift’s storytelling aptitude, from Fearless’ hopeless romanticism to the darker Reputation era.
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An Unhealthy Definition of Rights

Parmet, a law professor at Northeastern University who has written widely on public health, recounts these developments, but her goal is deeper: to illuminate the currents in American legal culture that contributed to what she deems the country’s “catastrophic response” to the pandemic.
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Massachusetts police pull over more minorities than whites, new data shows

Matthew Ross, an associate professor of public policy and economics at Northeastern University, who assisted with the study’s analysis and conducted his own meta-analysis, joined All Things Considered host Arun Rath to discuss the findings. What follows is a lightly edited transcript.
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Why the Fed should treat climate change’s $150B economic toll like other national crises it’s helped fight

By Jennie C. Stephens, Northeastern University.
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Google adverts appear on sanctioned sites, according to report

“Something very deep has broken down at Google that they can’t identify these sites,” said Laura Edelson, assistant professor of computer science at Northeastern University.