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How can residents in Morocco guard against the next deadly earthquake?

NPR’s Michel Martin speaks with Dr. Mehrdad Sasani, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern University, about construction concerns in Morocco’s earthquake zone.
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Morocco earthquake: death toll passes 2,800 as foreign aid teams fly in

Mehrdad Sasani, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern University in the US, said the cheaper mud-brick houses that predominated throughout the villages increased the risk of fatalities during an earthquake.
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Harvard Law Grads Give Boston Cold Shoulder, Take Jobs Elsewhere

First-year lawyers out of Boston University, Boston College, Suffolk University, and Northeastern University already tend to stay in state. Law firms are approaching recruiting more holistically these days, so the lack of Harvard students may not feel as pronounced.
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What You Say to Google Assistant and Alexa (but Not Siri) Gets Used for Ad Targeting. Here’s How.

The answer is often yes, according to a new study from Northeastern University in Boston, which found evidence that Google and Amazon—but not Apple—use your voice interactions to draw conclusions about you. 

Police give overdose-reversing drug to puppy after possible fentanyl exposure

“It is not possible to overdose by touching or accidentally inhaling fentanyl, and the same would apply to non-human animals as well,” Leo Beletsky, a professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University, told The Times on Saturday.
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Meet the Two Maine Brothers Putting the “I” Back in IPA

That’s why Rupee Beer co-founders Vanit “Van” Sharma and his brother, Sumit, caught my attention
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Jacksonville shooting has already faded from memory. Victims deserve better from the media.

By James Alan Fox, Lipman Professor of Criminology, Law and Public Policy at Northeastern University, a member of the USA TODAY Board of Contributors, and author of  “Extreme killing: Understanding Serial and Mass Murder.”
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Are Massachusetts’ Teachers Unions Allowing Students to Fail?

Page’s view is “like 1850 Karl Marx,” Paul Harrington, an economist who spent years directing the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University, told CommonWealth. “But that’s not how the real world works.”
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First lady’s COVID-19 diagnosis revives pandemic politics and concerns over Biden’s age

He has tested negative multiple times, according to the White House, and is continuing with his regular schedule, but the diagnosis has raised the “salience” of the president’s health and could “worry voters concerned about his age,” according to Costas Panagopoulos, Northeastern University’s political science chairman.
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Jewelle Gomez: the Black lesbian writer who changed vampire fiction – and the world

During her undergraduate studies at Northeastern University in Boston, where she had a full scholarship to major in sociology with a minor in theatre, not only did her father die but Martin Luther King was assassinated.
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Patients still discriminate against health care workers of color. Why don’t more hospitals ban it?

Patricia Illingworth, a lawyer and professor of philosophy and business with the Ethics Institute at Northeastern University, says hospitals should have a zero-tolerance policy for accommodating race-based patient requests, with the exception of patients diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder or some other kind of trauma. Having served on ethics committees for Boston hospitals, she concludes […]
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Employers are reclaiming the balance of power

Alicia Sasser Modestino, an economist and associate professor at Northeastern University, isn’t optimistic that workers will hold on to their gains very long. In an email, she laid out three primary concerns.