Word: chronicic
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...Despite the singularity of the occasion, we upperclassfolk will readily recognize the premise of President Faust’s enthusiasm: from the politician production-lines at the IOP to chronic Wall Street recruitment fairs, Harvard bombards us with the message that we’re brilliant. Whether as future intellectuals, entrepreneurs, reformists, or even revolutionaries, we will, for better and not for worse, be tomorrow’s leading lights...
...activists convened in Durban, South Africa for the 13th International AIDS Conference. Although South Africa was home to the world’s largest HIV positive population, most of the infected were far too poor to afford the anti-retroviral therapy that can transform HIV into a manageable chronic illness...
...fight promised to be ugly, but the issue would have taken weeks - if not months - to work its way through the Diet. So why did Abe, only three days after promising to fight on, decide to throw in the towel? Plagued by rumors of chronic ill health, he looked exhausted in the days before his resignation announcement. "Abe broke under the pressure," says Norihiko Narita, a politics professor at Surugadai University near Tokyo. "The weight of his responsibilities was just too much." For his part, Ozawa expressed bewilderment over the about-face. "I have been in politics nearly 40 years...
...returning students dragged their luggage into their new rooms and started unpacking last week, most received quite a shock. No, Harvard hadn’t renovated their rooms, installed cable television, eradicated chronic cockroach infestations, or emplaced air conditioning/central heating units. (The Allston campus will probably be completed before any of these things happen.) Rather, it was the absence of Harvard’s (in)famous red phones and institutional, mostly lumpy, and sometimes-yellowing pillows...
...These dams may boost economic growth in developing countries facing severe energy crunches. Vietnam, for example, suffers from chronic electricity shortages, and compared with coal-fired and oil-burning plants, hydropower is a relatively clean and inexpensive solution. But dams also have severe, long-term environmental consequences. Vietnam's Mekong Delta, where the river finally meets the sea, is a vast web of waterways that serves as a giant rice bowl, providing the nation with half of its total agricultural output. Yet in part because of the increasing number of dams reducing the flow of the river, salt water from...