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...intellectual breadth that characterizes Venky. “In any new dean, I should look for the highest scientific standards, collaborativeness, and good humor,” Knowles said. “And the ability to encourage our alumni and alumnae to look ahead with Harvard as the footprint of engineering and the applied sciences grows.”—Staff writer Aditi Balakrishna can be reached at balakris@fas.harvard.edu...
...Kajee suggests that the places not on Bush's itinerary but nevertheless bearing some degree of a U.S. footprint will also have some impact on how the current Administration is viewed. "To ignore the Horn of Africa, which is the region with the highest rate of humanitarian need in the world, is a bit of a slap in the face for citizens of those countries," said Kajee. "It's very significant that he has chosen not to visit Kenya or Ethiopia when the U.S. is so close to both. It seems opposed to the stated U.S. focus on Africa...
...meeting with the EAC was both positive and constructive,” said University spokesman John D. Longbrake. “The University is committed to reducing its environmental footprint, and we’re going to continue to have an open dialog with...
...thousand cases worldwide per year; and, if detected early, the disease can be treated effectively with antibiotics. But since the early 1990s, plague has returned to places - including India, Zambia, Mozambique, Algeria and parts of China - that had not seen it in many years or even decades. Its global footprint has also shifted, according to a paper published last month in the journal PLoS Medicine. In the 1970s, most plague cases were in Asia; today, more than 90% are in Africa. The conundrum for epidemiologists: Why is human plague reappearing now, even though nearby animal populations have likely harbored...
...will be expected to pay $50 every time I take the car out of the garage on a weekday. That's almost the cost of a minicab journey to Heathrow. Or a pizza dinner. I'll have to swap the Mercedes for a new car and my carbon footprint will get bigger. "If you hardly drive it, that's a really good point," she says. "There are people like you, but hopefully not too many. People with very old, well-looked-after Mercedes are probably not the target of this, but we have to put the measures in somewhere...