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Civil rights activist Ted Landsmark reflects on Boston’s reputation for racism — and how the city has and hasn’t changed

Landsmark is now a professor at the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Northeastern University. 
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Remote employees work longer and harder, studies show

“That is the number one thing, pre-COVID, that managers would always bring up,” said Barbara Larson, executive professor of management at Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business.
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Spain in ‘political limbo’ after election yields no clear winner

Pablo Calderon Martinez, a professor at Northeastern University, told Al Jazeera Sunday’s outcome revealed a “divided country”.

What Benjamin Franklin Learned While Fighting Counterfeiters

These shiny patches were most likely an attempt to combat counterfeiters, who would not have had access to this special paper, said Jessica Linker, a professor of American history at Northeastern University who studies paper money of this era and was not involved in the study. Of course, that didn’t stop them from trying.
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‘A bad perfect storm’: the US cities where temperatures have sizzled for 70 days

“Our systems are not prepared to deal with this,” said Gredia Huerta-Montanez, a pediatrician and environmental health researcher at Northeastern University. 
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Will Spain shift to the right?

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He’s tried to ‘liberate’ colors for years. His latest: the ‘Barbiest pink.’

While Mattel hasn’t registered “Barbie pink,” it can try to restrict people like Semple from using it, said Alex Roberts, a law professor at Northeastern University.

Gretchen Whitmer Would Like You to Meet ‘Governor Barbie’

Still, Meg Heckman, an associate professor of journalism and media innovation at Northeastern University, sees risks for women in particular who “lean too hard” into individual aspects of their personae — not least an aspect that has been borrowed from a glammed-up children’s plaything.
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Images in the Mind’s Eye Are Quick Sketches That Lack Simple, Real-World Details

The study may spur further research. “It opens a lot of questions for the field to follow up on,” says Jorge Morales, a psychologist and philosopher at Northeastern University who was not involved in the study. 

Supreme Court decision limits how prisoners can challenge their convictions

Daniel Medwed is a professor at Northeastern University School of Law and the author of “Barred: Why the Innocent Can’t Get Out of Prison.”
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Critics say pettiness among Mass. lawmakers is delaying key gun control bill

“It’s a badly broken system, and I think people who care about particular legislative priorities are becoming fed up,” said Peter Enrich, a retired Northeastern University law professor who leads a coalition that promotes legislative transparency. 
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Seaweed As Art At The New Bedford Whaling Museum

The final curation by Naomi Slipp, Douglas and Cynthia Crocker Endowed Chair for the Chief Curator, and Maura Coughlin, Northeastern University, includes more than 125 works from 1780 to today, all singularly focused on seaweed.