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Musharraf's eight years in power have seen unprecedented economic gains, a freer media and better infrastructure, but his increasingly ham-fisted attempts to stay in power have eroded public confidence. A recent survey by the U.S.-based International Republican Institute found that Musharraf's ratings have reached rock bottom. "As the national mood continues to sour, President Musharraf continues to bear the brunt of this voter dissatisfaction and his approval rating has dropped to an all-time low of 21%, from a high of 63% in September 2006," says the report...
...Harvard feels much freer to invent. There’s a sense of spontaneity,” said Lord Richard T. Wilson, the master of Emmanuel College in Cambridge. That school, John Harvard’s student home, was founded in 1584. His colleagues from Oxford (founded in the 11th century) and Cambridge (founded in the 13th century) were among the crowd...
Their finding, reported this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: nitric oxide (NO). A workhorse of the blood, the gas helps red blood cells ferry oxygen to tissues and props open tiny vessels to allow freer blood flow. It turns out that within hours of leaving the body, levels of nitric oxide in the blood begin to drop, until, by the time donated blood expires after 42 days, the gas is almost nonexistent. "The reality is that we are giving blood that cannot deliver oxygen properly," says Stamler, lead author of the study. "Many patients...
...study published in February this year found that 44.8 percent of all women (sexually active and not) between the ages of 20 and 24 have contracted some form of HPV. Additionally, the occurrence of HPV is greatest in the first few years of sexual activity. College is a freer environment than the one most people grow up in, and therefore it is particularly important to educate people about sexual choices and habits at places like Harvard. While most cases of HPV are harmless and generally clear within two years, this now-cheaper vaccine protects against 70 percent of all cases...
Last year, FAS voted to move the deadline for concentration choice to the end of students’ sophomore fall, effective for the Class of 2010 in an attempt to foster freer academic exploration and more informed concentration selection among undergraduates. Since then, most departments have been persuaded to modify their requirements in order to adapt to the new policy. One of the first casualties in virtually every department’s housecleaning was the sophomore fall tutorial: The days of the 97a’s are now but distant memories...