Ragnar Lofstedt, a Swedish academic based at the Centre for Environmental Strategy in Britain, estimates that even with subsidies, windpower is unlikely to replace more than 0.3% of nuclear's capacity by 2005.

ECONOMIST: Energy policy

Burhan Ghalioun, a secular Sunni academic based in Paris, resigned three weeks ago over criticism that the council wasn't working transparently and that it had grown out of touch with the protest movement inside Syria.

WSJ: Syria Opposition Picks Kurdish Dissident as Leader

The BPP is an academic project based at MIT which seeks to use prices collected at hundreds of online retailers to estimate a daily price index.

FORBES: Inflation and the Billion Prices Project