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...Countless other Indian medical workers who have gone on strike this week feel much the same as Sen, which is why India's sudden battle over affirmative action makes the ongoing divide in the U.S. over racial preferences seem tame by comparison. Public hospitals across the country have shut their doors to all but emergency services; private hospitals in some Delhi suburbs are following suit; trade unions have called for a morning of civil disobedience; and students at India's elite business schools are meeting to plan their own protests. In spite of the disruption, the government has sworn that...
...previously estimated. “The thing that we’ve shown very solidly is there was a complex speciation between humans and chimpanzees,” said David Reich, an assistant professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School and the senior author of the Nature paper. A comparison of the DNA sequences of humans and chimps revealed that the complete divergence of the two species took over four million years, Reich said. The evidence indicated that the decisive split between humans and chimpanzees “must have occurred more recently than 6.3 million years, and probably [even...
...water that flooded New Orleans came through breaches in the floodwalls, not over the tops of levees. That's key because a storm surge topping the levees would have lasted but a few hours, leaving at most 3 ft. of water in New Orleans, he calculates. The breaches, by comparison, let water pour in for days, inundating houses up to their rooftops...
...comparison to chief executives at for-profit firms with revenues comparable to Harvard’s, Summers was paid a pittance...
...downloads, that allows you to download all you want for a monthly fee, keeping the songs playable as long as you remain a subscriber. Last year, subscription-content privileges were extended to portable devices, but Apple still had no reason to fear: the software-and-player combinations paled in comparison to the iTunes/iPod powerhouse. While this remains mostly true, Urge is the best reason to date why Apple should avoid resting on its laurels...