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...They were acting on a tip-off about possible illicit activity. But the agents weren't searching for drugs or knockoff Rolexes. They were looking for rice. The inspection was part of a nationwide effort to nab profiteers who, taking advantage of sky-high prices for Asia's most basic food, are suspected of repackaging government-subsidized rice and reselling it at higher market rates. Officers have had some success, discovering 27,000 bags of rice at one warehouse, according to Rex Estoperez, spokesman for the Philippines National Food Authority (NFA), which distributes subsidized grain. "Another warehouse was caught...
...needed a better way to assess production capacity. The result was gross national product (GNP), which after the war soon became the standard means of keeping economic score. It was replaced in 1991 by GDP, which measures production in the U.S. as opposed to production by Americans, but the basic idea is the same. The concept conquered the world--with Germany deserving special mention as surely the only country ever to have produced a chart-topping pop song about GNP (Geier Sturzflug's Bruttosozialprodukt...
...humans. While gorillas beat their chests and chimpanzees fight savage wars, bonobos appear to be largely animals of peace. They live communally, enjoy gender equality and, when disputes occur, resolve their differences through sex--straight sex, gay sex and sometimes, when different bonobo troops cross paths, group sex. "Their basic disposition is compassionate," says Sally Coxe, president and a co-founder of the Washington-based nonprofit group Bonobo Conservation Initiative (BCI), who is guiding our trip...
...technologies approved by the Food and Drug Administration specifically for NTDs between 1975 and 1999 were developed exclusively through public avenues of funding. Universities, the originators of 50 of the 100 most important therapeutic interventions in use today, are the institutions best suited to combine the disciplinary scope in basic and social sciences with the international scale in research capacity to effectively meet the challenges posed by NTDs...
...research and training. Because of the lack of traditional research funds in this field, the university must be proactive in seeking non-traditional sources of financial support, including philanthropic foundations and alumni champions. Although the challenges to each field are distinct—NTD research necessitates significant contributions from basic science, while global health delivery science is rooted in the social sciences—the opportunities for productive synergies between NTD and delivery research initiatives are numerous, including collaborations in the development of research capacity overseas. Many Harvard professors, including Jim Kim, Bruce Walker, Dyann Wirth, Sue Goldie and Paul...