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...them. Inspectors quarantined 13 sites across Canada as they investigate where - and how - the Black Angus got sick. MEANWHILE IN COLOMBIA ... Livin' La Vida Loca Forty soldiers were arrested after stealing $9 million in drug money they found in the jungle. Military officials became suspicious when the soldiers (who earn about $175 per month) went on shopping sprees, buying new cars and TVs, and showered money on prostitutes. Authorities said the money had belonged to the rebel Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, which acquired it from drug cartels...
...Furthermore, they’re not at all necessary to achieving the wider task of raising standards—if that indeed is the goal of people like Mansfield and Jasanoff. There are many classes at Harvard that lack quotas but still have such difficult requirements that few students earn grades...
...many have found it too difficult, but the University is finally making it easier for students to leave Harvard. Last week the Faculty’s Standing Committee on the Core Program passed new guidelines that will liberate students from one Core requirement for every semester of credit they earn abroad. Students may also apply for exemption from the Foreign Cultures requirement on the basis of a summer or partial term spent studying overseas. This welcome policy will make study abroad more feasible...
...victims has soared from 28 to 308, a 91% increase in just three weeks, while the number of deaths from the disease has leapt from zero to 35. Taiwan now has the third highest number of cases in the world, behind mainland China and Hong Kong, and enough to earn a WHO travel advisory. The epidemic also claimed Taiwan's first political casualties: Twu Shiing-jer, Minister of Health, and Chen Tzay-jinn, director of the CDC, resigned over criticism they were too slow to implement strict infection-control measures in hospitals...
Under the new policy, as outlined in an e-mail sent to all undergraduates going abroad next fall, students will be exempt from one Core requirement for each full term—or four courses—of Harvard credit they earn, with a maximum of two exemptions allowed...