Word: expanded
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...British medical journal the Lancet predicted that if the next pandemic were to be as deadly as the 1918 flu, 96% of its estimated 62 million victims would come from developing countries. But withholding information on H5N1 isn't the answer. Instead, Heymann and the WHO are working to expand vaccine production in the developing world, enlisting companies to transfer medical technology there and encouraging wider use of seasonal flu vaccines, considered a luxury in poorer countries. Says Heymann: "We need to change the way the system works in a way that could benefit the entire world...
...away with antiquated methods of discipline. Edward Holyoke, class of 1690 and president from 1737-1769, ended the custom of flogging students. More importantly, Holyoke was instrumental in a movement towards valuing merit over social class, planting the seeds of an egalitarian tradition that the University would strive to expand throughout its history...
...technology requires twice the normal bandwidth of a regular HD broadcast, which satellite and cable carriers aren't likely to offer until there is enough content (now there isn't any), and the NBA will need to plow a lot of money into development if it wants to expand the technology's reach...
...Google has been scanning Harvard’s books at a secret, undisclosed location for the past two years. According to Verba, the scanning process had “not been at a very rapid pace, the digital facility we had being relatively small.” Once the expanded facility is in place, Verba said, “we are going to do a larger number of books.” As of its announcement last week, Princeton is the 12th institution to join the Google Books Library Project, and the only other Ivy League school to have done...
...issued a statement extended Faust “a warm welcome,” but urged her to “expand her vision and incorporate the views of a community that is much more diverse and listen to all students, not merely those that are traditionally represented at Radcliffe, in the academia, and inside University Hall...