Rich Barlow

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Carrie Hessler-Radelet (CAS’79, Hon.’16) says global turmoil offers a chance to do foreign assistance better University News Carrie Hessler-Radelet (CAS’79, Hon.’16) says global turmoil offers a chance to do foreign assistance better Twitter Facebook The ongoing shutdown of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) continues to upend American efforts against global poverty, yet it offers an opportunity to do development aid better. That was former Peace Corps director Carrie...

3 weeks ago | bu.edu | Rich Barlow

BU emerita professor who served on international commission suggests doctors look beyond BMI to diagnose obesity Health & Medicine BU emerita professor who served on international commission suggests doctors look beyond BMI to diagnose obesity Twitter Facebook Body mass index (BMI), doctors’ go-to metric for adjudicating a person’s healthy weight for decades, has had long-recognized limitations. Determined by dividing people’s weight by their height, BMI was the subject of a recent report by...

3 weeks ago | bu.edu | Rich Barlow

Jacobs: Yes. For one, we should always be surprised when this very conservative court upholds any gun control law or regulation, whether we are dealing with a Second Amendment issue or not. The six Republican justices are often quite results-oriented, and you’d generally rather be on the pro-gun side in front of the court. That said, I found the outcome in this case particularly surprising because the court seemed quite skeptical of the rule at oral argument.

4 weeks ago | bu.edu | Rich Barlow

Former ambassadors, both European, assess the deteriorating friendship between the longtime allies Politics Former ambassadors, both European, assess the deteriorating friendship between the longtime allies Twitter Facebook The antagonism toward traditional U.S. allies Europe that some Trump administration officials have expressed publicly in the past emerged again, inadvertently, from the now highly publicized March 23 app group chat about ongoing US attacks on Houthi militia in Yemen. “I...

4 weeks ago | bu.edu | Rich Barlow

BU expert on aging Deborah Carr says climate change, amenities, and politics could account for Bay State’s popularity Voices & Opinion BU expert on aging Deborah Carr says climate change, amenities, and politics could account for Bay State’s popularity Twitter Facebook Well, we didn’t see this coming. Massachusetts—commonwealth of uncommonly high living costs and winters that can drag on for months—was retirement central last year. The state claimed a larger percentage of migrating retirees...