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Lerner Center’s Monday Mile an alternative to New Year’s resolutions
“All you have to do is map a route wherever you’re at, gather your group and have fun walking!” says Shannon Monnat, associate professor of sociology and Lerner Chair for Public Health Promotion. "Many organizations, universities and cities have adopted the Monday Mile activity and have seen great results," she adds.
Lovely discusses US-China trade dispute in CNN Money, Christian Science Monitor
International automakers are "training their future competitors and receiving only a fraction of what their intellectual property would earn" if they were allowed to go it alone in China, says Mary Lovely, professor of economics.
Lovely discusses fairness of Chinese automobile tariffs in CNN Money
Mary Lovely, professor of economics, says the reason why the United States and China have such drastically different tariff rates for imported cars is because of a pre-existing deal between the countries to keep car tariffs high while slashing import taxes on other goods, such as soybeans.
Steinberg quoted in CNN article on public approval of Trump
"If you don't have the American people behind you and you get into these huge exercises of drawing red lines, where are people going to be if he gets them into a conflict?" asks University Professor James Steinberg.
Ma discusses China's influence on US education on CNN
"Their (Chinese) classroom participation patterns right now really have pushed a lot of professors to think about how they can adjust the way they teach," says Yingyi Ma, associate professor of sociology and O'Hanley Faculty Scholar.
Banks talks to CNN, Bloomberg about surveillance of presidents, people
William C. Banks, director of the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism, says "the CIA needs to share what is known about its vulnerabilities with the companies that are impacted," in response to the documents released by WikiLeaks.
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