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...DIED. Jeff Getty, 49, AIDS patient and activist who agitated for experimental medical treatments; of cardiac arrest; in Joshua Tree, California. In 1995, after a two-year fight for approval, Getty received bone-marrow cells from a baboon-the first animal-to-human bone-marrow transplant-to boost his immune system. Though his body rejected the cells and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration later banned such transplants, he used his visibility to fight on, successfully getting more doctors to perform organ transplants on AIDS patients, whose prognoses were often deemed too bleak to justify such surgery...
...performance targets - to be first or second in its industry, and to meet quantified goals for leadership and innovation - or be sold. Most shaped up. Tata Steel, for example, shed half of its 78,000 workers between 1994 and 2005, using retirement and voluntary redundancies to lower costs and boost productivity. "The Tata group's relationship with its employees changed from the patriarchal to the practical," reads the Tata code of honor, which sets group-wide standards of conduct. Subir Gokarn, chief economist at ratings agency Crisil, says Ratan Tata read the runes of change and largely avoided the rash...
...going to win, or we have a great chance at winning, because not many teams are going to keep us from scoring,” Hoff said. “But getting a goal in the first half and going into halftime with the lead was a huge boost because we really didn’t come out very strong.” The fourth-highest scoring team in the nation, Harvard strategized how best to use its offensive skills against the Tigers, watching tapes of the game to size up Princeton’s weaknesses...
...compassion ends and colonialism begins? One retired nurse in Northern Malawi was blunt: "We can't afford to look after the thousands of babies that are being orphaned every day," she told the London Independent. "If rich people like Madonna take just one child it will be a major boost for Malawi...
...Dillon professor of international affairs, said in a phone interview. “All this shows is that of the offers made last year to men and women, women accepted at a much lower rate than the men.”Harvard has sought in recent years to boost its ranks of women with tenure-track posts—assistant or associate professors who are eligible to be granted a tenured professorship—as a way to improve gender diversity in FAS. The issue sparked national interest in early 2005, after then-University president Lawrence H. Summers suggested that...