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...corporation that claims to offer comprehensive treatment for its workers. Initially Coke only provided treatment for 1,200 of its 100,000 employees—less than two percent of its workforce. Only after intense pressure from activist groups did Coke announce on Sept. 29 that it would extend coverage to the eight largest of Coke’s forty bottlers in Africa. However, even this move forward came with small print undermining its significance. Hidden underneath all the positive publicity Coke hoped to gain from this announcement was the fact that Coke would only subsidize half the cost...
Carlos Gonzalez Barragan, who studies international finance at the Universidad de Monterrey, first came to Harvard for the spring 2002 semester to take economics classes but petitioned to extend his study for the fall. “I found all these cool, interesting classes in other departments that I wouldn’t find at home,” Barragan says. “The nice thing about being a visiting student is that you don’t have Harvard requirements. You can take whatever you want as long as it’s not lotteried, and as long...
...Brien has several concrete proposals to save money on health care—freeing up more funds to extend health coverage to the state’s thousands of uninsured residents. O’Brien would expand state assistance to local health centers that purchase drugs at a discounted rate, saving patients money and allowing more people to get the prescriptions they need. She shows an unparalleled dedication to expanding coverage to the poor by implementing preferred drug purchasing and allowing uninsured residents to purchase discounted drugs under the state’s Medicaid plan...
Although the number of Wi-Fi "hot spots" has exploded to include about 10,000 public areas in the U.S. where computers can wirelessly connect to the Internet, service rarely extends beyond 300 feet. Users are generally restricted to the hotel or cafe that provides the service. Commercial antennas can be used to extend the range, but hot-spot enthusiasts prefer to make their own waveguide antennas or "cantennas"--so nicknamed because the simplest of them can be made by using a soup or Pringles can--with about $10 worth of wiring. "You could buy a fancy antenna...
...similarities between Harvard and Princeton extend beyond perfect Ivy records...