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...traveled to the far north of Vietnam, near the border with China, the houses in the countryside reminded me of those I had seen in my travels in Ethiopia. My wife's aunt, a professor of social work in Saigon, reminds us that Vietnam is only beginning to cope with serious social problems like drugs and family violence...
This is an especially difficult—and common—predicament, and one that I have also had to contemplate during my time at Harvard. The friends that shared our days of Trapper Keepers and bad haircuts are irreplaceable, and so it can be hard to cope with the reality that their place in your life is changing...
...environmental protection are often antithetical. Added to this, the toll from disasters, natural and man-made, is in many cases catastrophic, and the situation is getting worse, not better. Unanticipated variability in climate—droughts, floods, and violent storms—pose problems for those least equipped to cope, a problem not confined to Africa but one experienced increasingly in many different parts of the world...
Tiona Zuzul ’05 analyzed Harvard students in relationships, identifying the students as optimists or pessimists. The optimistic students, she discovered, get more satisfaction out of relationships than the pessimists do. “I know that sounds intuitive, but optimists are also better able to cope after their relationships end. I didn’t expect this because if you only expect the best, are you able to deal with the worst results?” Zuzul said...
...charges mills). Chinese officials say supply bottlenecks are to blame for the price hikes. Ambassador Fu has raised the issue with Australian officials. "There is strong investment in the minerals field, but not enough to meet demand," she says. "The price is rising faster than the (Chinese) side can cope with." But Australia's government won't be intervening. "China aspires to be recognized as a market economy," said trade minister Mark Vaile last week. "Well, hello, this is how a market works." If Chinese interests had greater equity in the local resources sector, says an Australian government official, much...