Word: following
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...crowded eating area itself seems the most likely way that disease would spread. Signs warning about things like plates seem laughably inadequate in this context. Follow these tips, they seem to claim, and one will be safe from danger. But if the student next to you fighting to reach the last pizza slice has H1N1, then you may be bound for UHS’s quarantine rooms, regardless of whether his plate is clean or whether he earned his point for Purell...
...comprised 6.7 percent. These markets are so small that the profits rendered from them are insignificant, indicating that, at essentially no cost to the university, Harvard can make a groundbreaking step toward reducing the cost of essential medicines in poor countries and set an example for other universities to follow...
...transparent to verify its effectiveness, and based on explicit metrics that measure the success of technology transfer by its impact on access and continued innovation; that removes legal barriers to generic production of Harvard technologies in resource-limited countries, using proactive licensing provisions to ensure that barriers such as follow-on patents and data exclusivity cannot be used to block such production...
...Thomas Frank, author of “What’s the Matter with Kansas?”, contends that people should ignore issues like marriage and follow their economic self-interest, which aligns with Democratic policies. But people care about culture regardless of their finances. “It’s no less ridiculous to complain about evangelical Christians in Kansas voting for Republicans than to complain about movie stars in Hollywood voting for Democrats who will raise their taxes,” said Ross G. Douthat ’02, a columnist for The New York Times...
...follow-through has been a problem. Washington has yet to persuade Pakistan's military leadership of the need to take on what remains of the Mehsud network. While it continues to pound the area with air strikes, the Pakistan military is reluctant to mount a ground offensive in South Waziristan, citing the hazardous terrain. And in North Waziristan, Pakistan appears unwilling to confront the Haqqani network and other militants who mount cross-border attacks on U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan. Instead, it has focused on militants who challenge its own authority in Pakistan. (See pictures of the turmoil...