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Campus Briefs

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. [more.]

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.
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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. [more.]

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.
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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. [more.]

 

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David Sedaris, NPR commentator and author of Me Talk Pretty One Day, launched his spring tour in Woolsey Hall on April 2, delighting the audience with new stories about a perennial topic -- his comically dysfunctional family. [more.]

 

 

 

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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.

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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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