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When MP3s and posters just aren’t enough to satisfy your obsession with Chester French, you can now get an extra dose of the duo by buying a special package in honor of the release of their debut album, “Love the Future...
Atlanta's growth bolstered the aspirations of cities and towns across this region. But the recession is delivering a dose of sobriety, and stoking fears in places like Allendale County, S.C., 200 miles away. Allendale County's unemployment rate stands at 23.4%. Ronnie Jackson, the mayor of the town of Allendale, population barely 3,700, says the town's decline started in the 1970s, when the old Route 301 was replaced by I-95 as the main connector to Florida. The town lost motels and restaurants, says Jackson, the mayor since last November. But the more recent closure...
Harvard’s restoration of three old mansions on the Harvard Law School campus in 2007 drew the Cambridge Historical Commission’s Preservation Award last Thursday, lending a dose of prestige to the aged structures where 26 Law School students currently reside. The award, bestowed annually for historically accurate restorations of Cambridge-area houses, recognized the Law School’s work on a trio of 19th-century Victorian mansions, which were updated and moved 150 yards from their original sites to make way for the school’s Northwest Corner Project—a construction...
...terms of getting that message across, a good dose of honesty helped. "He called for change but began with himself, pointing out the shortcomings of the U.S. in terms of dealing with its racial history, for example," says Hakan Altinay, director of the Open Society Institute in Istanbul. "That disarmed everyone. After years of the U.S. taking a superior approach to the rest of the world, he put himself on the same level as anyone else, and that really worked." (See pictures from the streets of Istanbul...
...order to deliver the greatest benefit to at-risk populations in the developing world, OTD’s strategy focuses on two areas that act as force multipliers: infectious disease (the leading cause of preventable infant and child mortality in poor countries) and diagnostic technologies. A single dose of vaccine may confer upon its recipient a lifetime of immunity against a deadly infectious disease. A diagnostic test that can be adapted for use in a challenging field environment outside of the traditional “high-tech” clinical laboratory setting stands to deliver the greatest benefit...