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Harvard Medical School presents "Talks@12: Paul Farmer Leads a Panel Discussion on Haiti" this Thursday from 12-1 p.m. in the Joseph B. Martin Conference Center at the New Research Building. Professor Paul Farmer is the co-founder of Partners in Health and the Deputy UN Special Envoy for Haiti. In case you have class (or can't schlep all the way to the Longwood Campus), a recording of the event will be available here...
...much more coverage, and it's encouraging to see it in a prominent publication like TIME. I was sorry to see, however, that human trafficking in the U.S. was not mentioned. There have been cases of trafficking and slavery reported in all 50 states and D.C., and Kevin Bales, founder of Free the Slaves, estimates the number of modern-day slaves in the U.S. to be between 40,000 and 50,000. Leaving out this information allows readers to assume that it is a problem only in a faraway place. Elizabeth Tromans Hamilton, Ohio...
Even before jan. 12, 2010, life was pretty good for Robin Li. The soft-spoken 41-year-old is the co-founder and chief executive of Baidu.com, the dominant search engine in China, the country with the most Internet users in the world. His stake in the company - started in 1999, five years after getting his M.S. from SUNY Buffalo in 1994 - is worth about $2.8 billion now. That makes him the seventh richest man in China, according to the annual rankings in Forbes magazine. Though he's been a computer geek since his undergraduate days at Peking University...
...It’s sort of like the biblical story of Abraham,” said Gates, referencing the father of the monotheistic faiths and his two sons—Isaac, the founder of Judaism, and Ishmael, the founder of Islam...
Suffolk County Assistant District Attorney Gerald Stewart recently offered a one-time deal to drop all criminal charges and issue a $50 fine for each infraction, according to joint Law School and Kennedy School student Craig S. Altemose, the founder of Students for a Just and Stable Future (SJSF), which coordinated the sleep-outs last fall. The Boston police had issued trespassing citations at five different sleep-out protests last fall, where SJSF members pushed for the Massachusetts State Legislature to introduce a bill for 100 percent clean energy...