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...there is more going on here than meets the eye--and the American people play a key role in the story. The merry-go-round is not just a simple piece of playground equipment. It's a PlayPump water system. Lack of access to clean water is one of Africa's biggest health challenges. Through technology developed by an African entrepreneur, the children are pumping clean water for their village when they turn the merry-go-round...
Facebook has in the past held acquisition discussions with Microsoft and Viacom, as well as Yahoo, according to the Journal. The corporations have been attracted to the site because it provides them access to a young demographic. In fact, the site tied with beer as the second most “in” thing among college students in a recent poll conducted by Student Monitor, a New Jersey-based research firm...
...undergraduates, definitely need to demonstrate personal responsibility when drinking alcohol. But considerations should be made for those among us—particularly freshmen, who constitute the majority of alcohol-related admits at UHS—whose inexperience with drinking makes hard liquor a dangerous liability. Without ready access to beer at the tailgate, they could “pregame” with hard liquor in private, making strict adherence to the letter of the law a potentially more dangerous alternative to the traditional beer tailgate. A more practical policy for the future would perhaps permit House Committees and student groups...
...opponents disagree and hope to see a stiff sentence handed down on Sept. 27. “One of the potential harms when a person like Smiley—someone who was trusted, and went on for seven and a half years—is that libraries might limit access to valuable collections out of fear and thus limit future academic pursuit,” said Goldman. “This would be a terrible loss.” —Staff writer Matthew S. Blumenthal can be reached at mblument@fas.harvard.edu...
...appeal is also encouraged by the fact that elective C-sections are widely available and affordable here, at a time when most people here believe only celebrities have access to them in the West. Give how little there is in the world uniquely available to both the average Iranian woman and Angelina Jolie, you can imagine the draw. "All women in the West would have Caesareans if they could," a friend informed me recently. "It's just that insurance companies won't cover them." Everyone here seems to think this, and it makes women who don't face an overabundance...