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...official. On Nov. 17, Japan's government declared that the second largest economy in the world had slipped into recession for the first time since 2001. The Cabinet office of Prime Minister Taro Aso said that gross domestic product had contracted at an annual rate of 0.4% in the three months up to September, its second consecutive quarter of negative growth...
...Achebe event, titled “From the Kingdom of Childhood,” was the sixth annual lecture for the Committee on African Studies, arranged in conjunction with the W.E.B. DuBois Institute and the Department for African and African American Studies...
...talk to people, and answer questions about recycling. Passerbys were pleasantly surprised by how small the trash pile was, including University President Drew G. Faust, who commented to a volunteer that she thought it would be bigger. REPs also conducted a virtual waste audit that mimicked the annual audit of Harvard’s trash that happened earlier that week. In the waste audit, REPs went through a sample selection of Harvard’s trash, assessing its makeup and recovering recycled materials. The most “surprising” result, said Gogan, was that paper, which generates methane...
This past Saturday, CSA hosted its annual Iron Chef Showdown between various cultural groups. This year, the Harvard African Students Association challenged challenged CSA’s reign in an all-out clash of cultures that drew in club members, students, and even pre-frosh...
...trick pony that has neglected to develop other sectors. "The gaming industry has been growing at the expense of other industries," says Chan, who stresses that small- and medium-size businesses cannot match the high salaries offered by the casinos. The local government evidently agrees: In his annual policy address on Nov. 11, Ho announced a $1.3 billion stimulus package of infrastructure improvements, income tax cuts, and cash handouts of roughly $640 per citizen. "Anything that allows the industry some breathing room is good," says Lam. "This is a good time to rest, and to re-think policies...