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This is not a new book. I suggest it now because it is about the work of Paul Farmer and colleagues who worked with him to found Partners in Health, an organization that has grown to have an important impact on several areas of the world. What caused me to return to this book (after first reading it a few years ago) was the earthquake in Haiti. Reading about the extraordinary challenges that Farmer and his team faced in delivering health care and building community-based programs gave considerable insight to the problems that continue to complicate the recovery...
Meanwhile, a New England Center for Investigative Reporting analysis found that the racial breakdown of those arrested for disorderly conduct mirrored the racial composition of Cambridge, The Boston Globe reported today. The CPD also released the summary of an analysis it conducted with regard to disorderly conduct arrests, which said that black and white offenders faced similar arrest rates regardless of the arresting officer’s race...
...week ago, Harvard men’s lacrosse coach John Tillman would have found it hard to imagine himself coaching anywhere else...
SEAS graduate student James C. Bird, who led the study, found that the forces acting on a bubble cause the film to fold into itself and form a donut-shaped pocket of air. Then, the surface tension breaks the "torus of air" into a ring of smaller bubbles, Bird wrote in a press release...
Wheeler, who arrived at Harvard in 2007 as a sophomore, was a resident of Kirkland House and won a Hoopes prize in his junior year for a paper that was later found to be plagiarized...