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...Noorzai [Feb. 19], you said that "the world changed on Sept. 11, 2001." The world didn't change. Global warming is still here, the poor are poor, the rich are rich, Africans are dying of AIDS, and malaria kills millions of children every year. The "world" changed for a fraction of the earth's population, mostly Americans, their allies and those who have been suffering from their attacks. Please be less ethno- and egocentric. The U.S. is not the world...
...Overexposed Rebels? I appreciated Andrew Marshall's and Nelly Sindayen's in-depth reporting on the New People's Army (N.P.A.) [Feb. 5], but I sometimes feel that the rebel group gets too much media attention. The insurgents are only a small fraction of the 90 million Filipinos. The members of the N.P.A. are as human as you and me, except with a different ideology. They just disagree with the government about how things should be run. A lot of positive things have been happening in the Philippines, and I'd like to see more coverage of those issues. Jovi...
...reason many hundreds of thousands of men with no sign of heart disease take statins. But that number is meaningless unless you take into account the percentage of men in both groups who have heart attacks in the first place. If those people represent only a tiny fraction of the two populations, an improvement of 30% isn't much--maybe one heart attack fewer in a group of thousands...
...rapid expansion of the latter threatens to make the rest of the disciplines feel left behind. “Science absorbs vast amounts of money and space, and the rest of us who sit in our offices and read books think we would like to have a small fraction of that money and space,” Jennifer L. Hochschild, the Jayne professor of government, said in an interview yesterday.Among the challenges Faust will face in the coming years, professors across FAS said, defining the place of science in the University may be the most difficult?...
...material. Verba said that his goal is to digitize as many of Harvard’s books as possible—eventually all those out of copyright—rather than doing so selectively. In contrast, Trainer said that Princeton would solicit faculty and student input on picking the fraction of its library collection to be digitized. Harvard’s libraries, which compose the largest university system in the world, hold more than 15 million volumes, dwarfing the more than 6 million volumes in the Princeton system. Verba estimates that the out-of-copyright books being scanned may comprise...