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...implications of this leak are problematic on many levels. Harvard students should fear for their privacy, as this was a security hole that could be potentially dangerous. Prescription medications are the business of a patient and doctor, releasing the information to anyone else could have dire social and legal consequences. Knowledge of a Prozac prescription or medication for a potentially embarrassing illness affects not only the way we think about others but the way they are treated as well. Moreover, this security hole was open for a long period of time without attracting notice. It begs the question whether other...
...made, up to $100 and that the University will be receptive to student ideas for any additional action. While we have in the past been critical of Massachusetts Hall for overzealous guarding of University coffers, we are thankful that Summers has taken such a generous stance in this most dire circumstance. As the world’s wealthiest nations and individuals have opened their wallets, it is only appropriate that Harvard, one of the world’s wealthiest private organizations, should contribute to the cause as well...
...third world, live in low-lying areas near the ocean. The rise in sea levels caused by global warming threatens to flood these low-lying areas around the world permanently, causing massive dislocations of people and unimaginable loss of property. And that is just one of the dire consequences of global warming. In the long run, the gradual heating of the planet will change weather patterns and increase mortality due to the spread of tropical diseases...
...rich countries continue with business as usual, responding generously to the current disaster but failing to address the dire underlying situation of the world's poor, the world will repeatedly confront the tragic arithmetic of life and death. This is not merely a sound forecast based on the likelihood of future earthquakes, droughts, floods, landslides and epidemic diseases. It also reflects the grim fact that life-and-death disasters of the poor are with us every...
...might even improve your grades and make you wealthier and more appealing to members of the opposite sex. The gift, oh ye weary users of Microsoft Internet Explorer (Mac users who browse with Safari may continue to tune in, but your lot is not quite so dire), is Mozilla Firefox—an alternate web browser and the answer to your subconscious prayers...