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...rest of the world, Western Union means money. Having converted its wire traffic from text messages to cash, Western Union increasingly serves as a rough-and-ready bank for millions of migrant workers who send part of their pay to loved ones back home, whether from an Arizona broccoli field to a Mexican village or from a Saudi oil field to Bombay. As the pace of global migration quickens, so does the business of Western Union, which this year will add 20,000 cash-dispensing outlets to the 159,000 it operates in 195 countries and territories--nearly four times...
...expanse of Arizona, high malpractice premiums have prompted six obstetricians to stop delivering babies. Many women now have to drive an hour or more to reach a hospital with a delivery room, forcing several, like Melinda Sallard, 22, to give birth in the car en route to the hospital. Seniors in parts of Pennsylvania travel an hour or two to see a neurosurgeon, and one orthopedic surgeon from Philadelphia commutes every week to see patients in the Midwest, where malpractice-insurance costs are lower. Emergency rooms from Orlando, Fla., to Belleville, Mo., report that rising insurance premiums are making...
...disadvantages of preregistration. But preregistration was a bad idea also because it wouldn’t work as a predictor of course enrollments. Our registrar so advised the deans last summer, based on her prior experience as registrar at two schools with preregistration, Boston University and the University of Arizona. Preregistration is a useful method for allocating scarce enrollment slots where many courses have caps. But it does not produce good results if enrollments are open, unless students are not allowed to change courses. In any case, without a clearer picture of the magnitude of the problem?...
Justin hopes to become politically active in his home state of California. Daniel will pursue a degree in human rights at the London School of Economics next year, planning to become a human rights lawyer. In the short run, Kieran will travel to Arizona and New Mexico to write short stories based on Native American folk tales, and wants eventually to be involved in cinema or writing. Anthony will continue to work in theater and film. Sam wants to travel the globe as a documentary filmmaker. Nick will continue on to graduate school to nourish his love of East Asian...
Bergman’s best show was yet to come against No. 16 seed Arizona in the second round of the NCAA tournament, which Harvard hosted for the first time. The day started rosily for the Crimson, which earned the doubles point when Bergman and sophomore Susanna Lingman posted a dominant 8-3 victory at No. 1 and Wang and Anderson pulled off a stunning comeback from a 4-0 deficit...