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May 2002
A
Head of State for Global Center
Ernesto
Zedillo '81PhD, the former president of Mexico, will succeed
Strobe Talbott '68 as director of the Yale Center for the
Study of Globalization.
Poor
Sales End Lyme Disease Vaccine
Citing
poor sales, GlaxoSmithKline announced
in February that it would stop distributing Lymerix,
a Yale-developed Lyme disease vaccine.
Lin
Elected to Corporation by Decisive Margin
Returning
ballots in record numbers, Yale alumni selected artist
Maya Lin '81, '86MArch over minister W. David Lee '93MDiv
in an unusually high-profile election for Alumni Fellow
of the Yale Corporation.
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David
Sedaris launched his spring tour in Woolsey Hall on April 2,
delighting the audience with new stories about a perennial
topic—his comically dysfunctional family. |
Yale
Index Shows Investors' Mood
Despite
all the economic bad news of the past few years, the confidence
of individual investors has remained rock steady, says Robert
Shiller, the Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics and author
of Irrational Exuberance, the best-selling examination
of the effect of psychology on the market.
Fencing
Champ is on Cutting Edge
When
other members of the Class of 2004 are job hunting and applying
to graduate school, Sada Jacobson may well be preparing to
compete in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, where
women's sabre will be a full-fledged medal event for the first
time.
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Lindbergh
in New Haven
Charles
Lindbergh flew solo across the Atlantic—and into history
—in 1927. The "Lone Eagle" eventually gave his
papers to the Sterling Library Manuscripts & Archives,
and from this resource, chief archivist and Lindbergh expert
Judith Ann Schiff and others have assembled quite a story.
How
'bout Those Guys?
From
out of nowhere, a young and inexperienced men's basketball
team emerged to grab a share of the Ivy League title this
year, winning fans on and off the campus and promising even
better things next year.
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