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...Gates Foundation, which primarily funds health and anti-poverty programs in the developing world, boasts an endowment of $33 billion. Harvard researchers are a frequent recipient of the foundation’s grants...
...program’s success to the popularity of the young TFs he hires. In addition to his own observations, he cites student feedback from weekly online reports.Students also appreciate the ability to practice their language skills outside of the classroom, since run-ins with undergrads are more frequent than off-campus grad student TFs.“It’s refreshing to have TFs who are students,” says Swahili student Adrienne C. Collatos ’10. “We don’t get to practice Swahili in our daily lives, so it?...
...more frequent droughts, overpopulation and intensified irrigation are pressing water engineers to devise new approaches. And some of them will take some getting used to. Despite a five-year drought widely considered the worst in Australia's recorded history, the residents of Toowoomba in Queensland last year resoundingly rejected an offer from the national government to fund a program to recycle purified sewage water back into the system. Scientific evidence and taste tests couldn't prevail against the yuck factor...
...Rafsanjani, the powerful former President, who prizes economic growth over democracy and Islamic ideology. Ahmadinejad also has problems outside Tehran. In the holy city of Qum, south of the capital, Ahmadinejad has offended the grand ayatullahs, who act as the country's spiritual leaders. Most irritating have been his frequent allusions to his connection to the Hidden Imam, the last in a line of descendants of the Prophet Muhammad, who Shi'ites believe will return at the end of the world to bring absolute justice to mankind. "Not only does he not talk about the sort of things a President...
Portrayals of genocide and mass murder victims are so frequent in modern media that our memory and compassion has grown short-lived. Today, we are concerned for the victims of Darfur and the women of Afghanistan, but who remembers the Bosnian war crimes? Writer-director Jasmila Zbanic’s first film, “Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams,” was nominated for the Sundance Film Festival and awarded the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin International Film Festival. Zbanic, a 32-year-old Bosnian, tells the story of her struggling country in the aftermath...