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...disease remains only a distant worry. That complacency is both understandable and dangerous. "A problem in a remote part of the world becomes a world problem overnight," Dr. Julie Gerberding, the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told reporters last week. If so, the blind faith of a Cambodian chicken seller in the preventative powers of sunlight and local earth should be ample cause for international concern...
...already analyzing other African cases, human-rights officials are urging the U.S. not to stand in the way of a Security Council referral. Could the U.S. turn a blind eye to jurisdiction by the I.C.C., which is, after all, an "internationally accepted means"? "You can dovetail that, but I can't," says the U.S. spokesman. While the U.N. debates, hundreds die in the region every day. - By Maryann Bird Food Fright BRITAIN A U.K. food scare involving the banned dye Sudan 1 - shown to be carcinogenic in rats - spread to 15 other, mostly European, countries. Britain issued an alert...
...that the IOP at least appears to be so overwhelmingly “rich, white, and mainstream” is that it seemed to me to be yet another way in which our supposedly meritocratic school helped perpetuate a rich, white, mainstream elite instead of developing a meritocratic one blind to previous privilege. After all, according to best estimates based on rampant facebooking, only six out of the 42 members of SAC are not white (and only 15 are women). And, based on admittedly unscientific observation alone, SAC is filled with polo shirts and blazers...
What followed the next morning in Cambridge was somewhat of a blind, chaotic scramble...
Summers’ position as the most powerful president in recent history should not cow us into silence or blind reverence. That is not an appropriate role for those who care about their university. This does not mean that we should simply abide by what the faculty says, nor criticize whatever Summers does. What it means is that we should listen closely to the critics in our midst, and formulate a coherent stance of our own that does not just mimic what the nearest authority figure says...