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...continues to see its efforts at economic growth frustrated by a disease that kills farmers, teachers, and businessmen in the prime of their working lives. And HIV/AIDS reserves an especially cruel toll for society’s most vulnerable. Gender discrimination, physiological susceptibility, and economic inequality have combined to affect a profound demographic shift in the disease; almost 60 percent of people living with HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa are women, and worldwide, women continue to be infected at a higher rate than men. As communities are left bereft of mothers and fathers, orphanages overflow, and grandparents are left...
...it’s really important that those issues are explicitly tackled.” CHI supervisor Keli M. Ballinger, who is also a Dunster House tutor, said that the debate is intended to dig deeper into the candidates’ platforms, and to show how their platforms will affect the overall well-being of the undergraduate community. “Students should be as informed as possible about how the initiatives and the candidates they support will affect their overall well-being,” she said. Over the course of the debate, the candidate pairs each answered...
...letter to the student body last week.The school is considering a return to optional disclosure, under which students would have the choice of letting recruiters see their grades from HBS. The present non-disclosure practice has been in place since 1998.Any changes that HBS decides to implement would not affect students currently enrolled at the school, but would only apply to future classes, Ruback wrote.Ruback and HBS student leaders both said that such a change would be intended primarily to reinvigorate the school’s academic focus, as well as to improve the recruiting process...
...this harsh depiction does not universally represent all girls. There is hope! The many stereotypes about girls represent only a certain type that tends to stand out. But you should not let this affect you. Don’t judge a whole group based on a particular “type.” Get to know some individuals...
...Benzene, nitrobenzene and aniline, used to produce explosives, fungicides, dyes and shoe polish, are nasty substances to have in a river. Benzene and nitrobenzene can affect the nervous system, and long-term exposure to benzene can cause cancer and chromosomal aberrations. With luck, the problem will simply drift downriver and dissipate without doing much harm. The Songhua eventually flows across the Russian border, joining the Amur River and emptying into the Sea of Okhotsk near Vladivostok. China waited at least a week after the explosion to notify Russia about the toxins. The two countries are now conferring, but Russian politicians...