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...Jeffrey A. Frankel, a professor of capital formation and growth at the Harvard Kennedy School, said he expected the financial sector to contract for some time into the future...

Author: By Maxwell L. Child, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Econ Professors Lament Financial Crisis | 9/18/2008 | See Source »

...surprise statement, Cambridge Public Schools Superintendent Thomas D. Fowler-Finn announced Tuesday night that he will step down in February 2009, six months before his contract expires...

Author: By Cora K. Currier, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fowler-Finn Suddenly Resigns | 9/18/2008 | See Source »

Fowler-Finn’s decision comes four months after the School Committee voted to extend his contract through July...

Author: By Cora K. Currier, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fowler-Finn Suddenly Resigns | 9/18/2008 | See Source »

...gender is a necessary step to reduce the spread of HPV.While men cannot get cervical cancer from HPV, they have an obligation to take the relatively simple measure of getting a vaccine to help prevent it in women. If more men are immune to HPV, fewer women will contract it. If a vaccine for a serious disease only affecting men were discovered, women would have a reciprocal obligation to help eradicate it. The burden should be on both partners to decrease any health risks.Though men are not at as high a risk of developing cancer from contracting HPV, getting...

Author: By Claire G. Bulger | Title: Dying for Equality | 9/14/2008 | See Source »

Despite the agency's novice status, IRD's proposal won its first USDA contract, in part because it was the only group willing to go into Indonesia during such an unstable time. "IRD was very young, and in some ways we were taking a risk with them," notes Pat Sheikh, deputy administrator for the agency's Foreign Agricultural Service, which currently has contracts with 25 nongovernmental organizations, including Catholic Relief Services and the World Food Program. Says Keys: "We had enthusiasm. Even though we were new and small, we had key staff people who had worked in Indonesia and were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teaching Them to Fish | 9/11/2008 | See Source »

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