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...better off drinking water—it doesn’t have the calories. Look for an energy drink with taurine in it to help you deal with all the stress. Guaranine also helps, since it’s basically the same as caffeine (only from Brazil, so it’s cooler) and studies on rats have shown that it increases memory retention. And even if the rats fail to live up to their promise, it’ll serve as a stimulant—and you’re going to need all the stimulation...

Author: By Synne D. Chapman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Don’t Drink and...Study? | 5/14/2008 | See Source »

...number of students studying in China is only a few shy of those in England. In their May 2007 White Paper, the Institute of International Education reported a 53 percent increase in number of American students studying abroad in Argentina from 2003-04 to 2004-05, while Brazil showed a 28 percent gain. Both figures far outpaced the eight percent increase in total students studying abroad. These figures, especially those in Latin America, come as no surprise to David Carrasco, a professor who specializes in Latin American studies and holds posts in both the Divinity School and the Department...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Go Abroad to Different Locales | 5/6/2008 | See Source »

...form of health insurance, out-of-pocket payments for medical care amount to 98.4% of total health expenditures by households, according to the PricewaterhouseCoopers study, which estimates that 20 million people in India fall below the poverty line each year because of indebtedness due to health-care needs. In Brazil and China, both countries India often compares itself with, the public share of health-care spending is around 40%, while the average for G7 countries is 70%. In India it is just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India's Medical Emergency | 5/1/2008 | See Source »

...announced a new initiative called OpenSocial. OpenSocial wants to be like Facebook's platform, only much bigger: Widget makers can write applications for it and they can run anywhere - on MySpace, Bebo and Google's own social network, Orkut, which is very big in Brazil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Google's Art of War — With Facebook | 4/30/2008 | See Source »

...follows on the heels of his many previous donations towards Harvard’s Latin American studies center. His previous donations offer ample evidence for what donation with a vision can do. Since its creation in 1994, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies has opened offices in Brazil, Chile and Cambridge, supporting Harvard students and faculty in an interdisciplinary approach towards understanding the complexity of Latin American studies. The Center organizes events and conferences to bring scholars together, provides grants to students and faculty, and produces publications that disseminate scholarship concerning Latin America...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Season of Giving | 4/28/2008 | See Source »

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