Word: dying
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...feeling the pain. "It's very hard to feed my family already, and now we're worried that the rice will run out. I've started cooking rice porridge to try and use less. Rice is very important to us: it is what we eat. Without [it] people will die." Food aid programs are suffering, too. Valerie Guarnieri, Philippines director for the U.N. World Food Program, which feeds about 1.1 million Filipinos, says rising prices mean her organization will have to spend about 60% of its $19 million budget on food, up from 45% last year. "It's going...
...East Asian star with Drunken Master, still has a two-continent career: Cantonese-language films at home, the Rush Hour movies here. Li, who became a Hong Kong superstar with the Once upon a Time in China series, segued to the West with hit movies in Hollywood (Romeo Must Die) and France (Fearless...
...consider the future? How can we get our legal institutions to focus on the long term rather than the short term? Those are very general questions. There are also some particular questions like, ‘Is there a way to reduce the number of Americans who die in the workplace?’ One of the reasons I’m thrilled to come to Harvard is because the Harvard community has so much energy and ability, and I hope we can tap a fraction of that to approach these problems. Having taught at the Law School...
After failing to draw the numbers necessary to conduct official votes at almost a third of its meetings in the past four years, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) considered lowering its standards for attendance yesterday. Too bad old habits die hard. Not enough professors turned out to yesterday’s meeting to take a binding vote on the new measure, which would have lowered the quorum—the number of attendees required for an official Faculty vote—from one sixth of the professoriate’s approximately 700 members to one eighth. The development...
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