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...these funds expand to keep pace with the growing study abroad program. Reservations about the quality of education outside the walls of Harvard also play an important role in inhibiting students from leaving Cambridge. Such doubts are especially common among students in the sciences, where sequenced curricula depend on consistently solid instruction. Last year, science concentrators represented a disproportionately small number of total students studying abroad (only 15 percent). Recruiting Harvard science faculty to teach abroad and developing partnerships with world-class laboratories and institutions must remain a priority for study abroad programming. Most importantly, while the latest developments...
...exactly, counts as a terrorist? If you're Russian President Vladimir Putin, the definition might just depend on how close or far the "terror" is from Moscow. A court in the Nizhniy Novgorod regional center last week gave a suspended two year sentence to Stanislav Dmitriyevsky, Chair of the local Russian-Chechen Friendship Society, and editor of Rights Defense bulletin. Dmitriyevsky was found guilty of fomenting ethnic hatred, simply because in March 2004, he published an appeal by Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov - later killed by Russian security services - and Maskhadov's envoy in Europe, Akhmet Zakayev...
...cyberextortion schemes become increasingly common, their targets have another choice: cyberinsurance. Demand for this emerging category of insurance, which will even cover a ransom payment, has jumped as more companies--and not just tech firms--depend on digital networks to do business. Written premiums topped $200 million in 2005, up from $100 million in 2003, according to Aon Financial Services Group managing director Kevin Kalinich, as corporations realize they have to guard against liability in addition to the hackers themselves...
...citywide wireless, and, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco officials have received 26 offers from companies willing to provide wireless to the hilly Californian streets. Though setting up wireless hubs throughout cities will be a pricy and logistically challenging prospect, wireless will increase efficiency for businesses which depend upon the Internet—as well as continue to help lower- and lower-middle-class families log on. We encourage all cities to look into the prospect of going wireless to increase efficiency, and, more importantly, to bridge the technological aspect of the socioeconomic divide. Because of the immense...
...DEAS faculty said that recommendation “provides too little incentive and structure for undergraduates to do advanced work and to develop the kind of superior scientific knowledge on which the advancements of science, engineering, and technology depend...