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...occasionally got my fill of Harvard by emailing with blockmates and perusing The Crimson website. I even got to watch the Crimson’s thrilling come-from-behind victory at Yale on national television...
...vulnerable to a speculative bubble. "Dubai is all about numbers and bringing in huge infrastructure projects," says Stuart Pearce, head of the Qatar Financial Centre. "When investors look at Qatar they see stability. Doha doesn't have a whole lot of office buildings that it needs to fill...
...order take part in the workshop, players had to fill out an application that included a short essay. According to Silva, more than 100 players applied...
...productive again? Artificial-limb donations are beginning to trickle in; doctors are urging charities, especially in the U.S., to collect used prostheses, as the late Princess Diana convinced them to do for land-mine victims. But it's obvious that Haiti can't rely on foreigners to fill such a vast order, or to provide the necessary physical therapy its amputees will require to be able to use them at all. "This could be the single biggest medical problem [Haiti] will have as a result of the earthquake," says Volk. (See TIME's comprehensive coverage of the earthquake in Haiti...
...result, just as development experts are urging the government and the international donor community to train Haitians in skills like earthquake-resistant building construction, many are recommending that a large-scale prosthetic industry be formed. "Like the building skills, it would fill an economic-stimulus need as well as a desperately needed social one," says one U.N. official in Haiti. That seems especially true given the cost considerations. In the U.S., for example, the most basic prostheses can cost between $1,000 and $2,000. Given Haiti's cheap labor, prosthetic-assembly plants could feasibly produce them for sale...