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...What role can drugs play in tackling a swine flu outbreak? Over the last few years, concern over a bird flu pandemic spurred many governments to stockpile antivirals. While the current swine flu outbreak remains limited in scope, health agencies will likely offer antivirals as a prophylaxis only to those who may have been exposed to the disease: asymptomatic passengers on the same flight as a sick Spanish man, for example, have been given Oseltamivir as a precaution. In New Zealand and Mexico, where there are confirmed cases of the disease, the drug has been made available over-the-counter...
...School’s mission statement charges it “to train enlightened public leaders and to generate the ideas that provide the answers to our most challenging public problems.”But as increasing numbers of graduates enter the private sector—because of debt concerns or pressure from corporate recruiting—some students have concluded the School has fallen short of its lofty aim.In 2007, 41 percent of HKS graduates entered the private sector, the highest level in over a decade, and some students say the figure reflects a failing on the part...
...Neither Harvard nor contemporary university pedagogy esteems this old ideal. The intellectual fads that currently enthrall academia long ago abdicated any concern with ends: Education, under this regime, is merely a question of means. Students indeed may write well and argue their points persuasively and powerfully, but toward which goal and on behalf of which argument they may exercise their faculties are questions never asked. Scientific training, assisted by advanced technology, points toward an ever-expanding horizon of information to be gathered and knowledge to be pursued, but with little concern for what purpose such research ultimately may be used...
...lack of a moral ideal in education bodes especially problematic in the case of Harvard students, who, already confident and ambitious, deserve to have their talents and energies directed toward a suitably noble end. Those students, without due guidance, understandably will concern themselves first with gainfully employing their knowledge and skill for either money or power, and only secondarily, if at all, with the responsible and respectable ideal that their university and most in their generation abandoned long...
...Parsi's concern is that Iran will demand that Obama grant a major concession as an incentive to negotiate, ironically adopting the Bush Administration's policy of setting preconditions for talks. What may be holding the regime back, Parsi says, is a fear of failure. If Tehran snubs Obama's olive branch, it will come under domestic and international pressure amid rising calls for more sanctions. But, Parsi says, the Iranians may worry that if they enter talks that then collapse, either because Obama was setting a trap or because he couldn't hold his part of the bargain, that...