Assets: a college degree in ceramics engineering from Alfred University, five years in ceramics research at Interpace, an M.

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"Education is more than technical learning, " says Alfred Vernis, director of university programs at Esade.

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Although crime has decreased nationally since 1991, that drop came after a seven-year rise in crime even though the prison population expanded by 77% during the same period, points out Alfred Blumstein of Carnegie Mellon University.

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She had just received an Alfred I. duPont - Columbia University Award for her reporting on Syria, which was broadcast on the CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley.

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According to Alfred McCoy, a history professor at the University of Wisconsin, in Madison, who has written a history of the C.

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The following year he was appointed to the Sir Alfred Jones Chair of Tropical Medicine at the University of Liverpool, and became Professor of Tropical Medicine at the university.

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Here, according to Alfred Blumstein, a professor of criminology at Carnegie-Mellon University, there may be even longer-term social factors involved.

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