Revolutions are built not on deep misery but on rising expectations. History may not provide much hope of immediate change in Hong Kong – but protesters may have a longer view.
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Middlebury College, founded in 1800, is a Vermont-based undergraduate educational institution known for its leadership in language education, international studies, and environmental studies. The college offers its students a broad curriculum embracing the arts, humanities, literature, foreign languages, social sciences, and natural sciences.
In addition to the undergraduate college, Middlebury operates the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, a leading international professional graduate school based in Monterey, California; the Middlebury C.V. Starr Schools Abroad in 17 countries and 38 cities around the globe; the Middlebury Language Schools, which celebrated their centennial in 2015 and educate 1,500 students each summer in Vermont and California; the Middlebury Bread Loaf School of English, founded in 1920 and offering summer classes in Ripton, Vermont; Oxford, England; and Santa Fe, New Mexico; the Middlebury Bread Loaf Writers’ Conferences in Ripton, Vermont; and the Middlebury School of the Environment in Kunming and Dali, China.
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The US defense community is coming to understand that AI will significantly transform, if not completely reinvent, the world's military power balance.
The US has 50 nuclear bombs stored in Turkey. As tensions rise between the two countries, a look at how they got there and what might happen next.
Women in the workplace face discrimination at every level, including in upper management.
The Canadian prime minister is the latest public figure struggling to apologize for past misbehavior. A language scholar explains how to do it right.
Conservatives worldwide favor carbon pricing, cap-and-trade systems and other innovative environmental plans – just not in the United States.
Engaging with diversity – a key ingredient for sense of belonging on college campuses – may involve discomfort and even tension at times.
A tick expert explains his work trying to understand why the abundance of the parasites vary so much from location to location and year to year.
Iran's leaders are threatening to breach a 2015 agreement that froze their country's nuclear program. What is uranium enrichment, and what would it mean for Iran's ability to build nuclear weapons?
Something about Netflix's business model just doesn't add up – unless you look at the streaming service as a massive data collection company.
Exporting nuclear technology is lucrative, but without strict safeguards, buyers could divert it into bomb programs. Why is Saudi Arabia shopping for nuclear power, and should the US provide it?
Trying to figure out if Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam or other would-be penitents are sincere? A scholar who analyzed dozens of recent apologies offers a user's guide.
Confidentiality is written into the code of ethics that governs the profession. Will Congress force them to break it to learn the contents of Trump’s private meetings?
The holiday used to be all about trick-or-treating in the neighborhood. No more – and it could something to do with the fact that traditional markers of adulthood have changed.
According to most physicists, there is no safe dose of radiation. So why would the EPA consider saying otherwise? Who stands to gain if the EPA declares low-dose radiation harmless?
The halal food sector largely relies on industrially produced meats and produce. But more and more Muslims are using the Quran to interpret halal to mean food that's wholesome and humanely raised.
The steep decline in refugee children in US schools will lessen the nation's ability to produce students who possess the skills of global citizenship, a researcher argues.
Made up almost entirely of West Germans, the roster of Germany's national soccer team reflects divisions that remain almost 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Linguistic clues show how people around the world first developed mathematical thought.
The May jobs report showed that US unemployment is at about a 50-year low. That's not how it feels to many men who've never been to college.
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Director, Middle East Nonproliferation Program, Middlebury Institute, Middlebury
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Assistant Professor in Biology, Middlebury
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Associate Professor of History, Middlebury
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Scientist-in-Residence and Adjunct Professor, Middlebury
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Nonproliferation Studies, Middlebury Institute of International Studies
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Professor of Film & Media Culture, Middlebury
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Associate Professor, Chair, Director, Middlebury Institute of International Studies
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Dean, Graduate School of Translation, Interpretation, and Language Education, The Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, Middlebury
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Associate Professor of Sociology, Middlebury
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Associate Professor of English Language Studies, The Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, Middlebury
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Assistant Professor of Economics, Middlebury
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Senior Fellow, James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Middlebury
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Professor of History, Middlebury
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Associate Dean of the Language Schools and Associate College Professor, Middlebury
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Associate Professor of Writing and Linguistics; Director of Writing & Rhetoric Program, Middlebury
