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...treatment plan. Coke requires workers to make a 10 percent co-payment. Previous estimates put the cheapest annual treatment for one HIV positive patient at a cost of $2,500. For a Coke employee, many of whom make well under $3,000 a year, the cost is an impossible burden. Even the 10 percent co-payment is simply too expensive for Coke’s bottling employees to afford and will preclude treatment from actually reaching its workers. Coke must eliminate co-pays to make treatment available to anyone besides its upper-level employees in Africa...
These problems are only the latest episode in the fitful computerization of Harvard’s bureaucracy. Nevertheless, the University’s Office of Human Resources and the Student Employment Office (SEO) should have made a better effort to fix these problems and lessen the burden on students who have had to put off purchasing books or paying bills. The SEO and the department of human resources have begun to address the problems, but these efforts are both too weak and too late...
...some students, the burden has been greater...
...mobility comes with a dark side. Only about half of the riders are licensed. The country's underdeveloped road network is jammed with children and teens riding at breakneck speed in heavy traffic. Adults use motorbikes as beasts of burden, dangerously overloading them with goods bound for local markets. Entire families go for rides, dad doing the driving, mom on the pillion seat holding a baby, while a young daughter perches on the handlebars. A recent survey found only 3% of riders wear helmets. "I've never worn a 'rice cooker'?it's too much hassle," says Nguyen The Hung...
...Heilman does not want to participate in is really being waged house by house, settlement by settlement, by Israeli policy. So just as we must condemn and delegitimize terrorism perpetrated by Palestinian extremists, we must also point out the insanity of the settlement policy. While Heilman may feel the burdens of military action as a soldier, he must also recognize the burden of the Palestinian population being slowly constrained from all sides by Israeli territorial expansion...