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...October and November of 2003, the total number of students treated for alcohol poisoning had nearly doubled in comparison to the same period in 2002. While Rosenthal stressed that the sharp increase might indicate a greater willingness on the part of students to seek professional treatment for alcohol-related concerns, they nonetheless prompted then-Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 to form the student-faculty Committee to Address Alcohol and Health at Harvard. Chaired by Harvard Business School professor Joseph L. Badaracco, the former master of Currier House, the committee delivered its recommendations to Gross...
...also decried the lack of attention to the plight of northern Uganda in comparison to other places where mass-murder is occurring...
...Official statistics show that 52 people are murdered every day in South Africa - an annual murder rate of 43.1 per 100,000 people. The U.S., by comparison, has an annual murder rate of 5.7 per 100,000 people. Added to that each year are 200,000 robberies, 55,000 rapes, and half a million cases of assault, serious assault and attempted murder...
...Rugby has long enjoyed a sizable audience in Britain, Ireland, France, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand and is developing a growing fan base in Argentina and Italy; the numbers of fans tuning in from such World Cup competitors as Tonga, Fiji, Georgia and the U.S. is tiny by comparison, however, so the 4 billion total means a lot more people from a growing number of nations around the world had to be interested enough to tune...
...Disease Control (CDC) and published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that MRSA is more prevalent than any previous estimates had suggested. In the CDC's survey of nine states in 2005, there were 32 cases of MRSA infection for every 100,000 people. (By comparison, in that same year, the incidence of invasive pneumonia or flu infections ranged from less than one to 14 cases per 100,000 people.) Extrapolating from these states' statistics, the researchers estimated that there were 94,300 cases of MRSA in the entire U.S. in 2005, with 18,600 deaths...