Word: gao
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...seniors said they first conceived of the idea for an online directory to connect students at Harvard and other universities in December 2002, and enlisted Sanjay G. Mavinkurve ’03 to write its code. But after his graduation and the departure of another designer, Victor Y. Gao ’04, from their team last November, the three turned to Zuckerberg to complete the portion of their site devoted to student-alum networking...
Last Wednesday, the non-partisan Congressional General Accounting Office (GAO) begged to differ, ruling that the videos were in serious violation of Federal anti-propaganda laws. In addition to failing to alert viewers that the videos had been produced with their own tax dollars by the Department of Health and Human Services, the GAO asserted that the videos’ included “notable omissions and weaknesses” in their coverage of the new Medicare...
...York State that spurred the law's passage, has been capped with a layer of clay, and the EPA proposed last month to take it off the list. So far, 278 sites have been delisted. But there are thousands more out there. According to the General Accounting Office (GAO), 1 out of 4 Americans still lives within four miles of a Superfund site--many of them killing fields saturated with cancer-causing chemicals and other toxins...
...GAO reports that the program's budget fell 35% in inflation-adjusted dollars over the past decade. And environmentalists say that Bush appointees are slowing the pace of cleanups and failing to list potential new sites. According to the EPA's inspector general, 29 projects in 17 states were underfunded last year. The Administration, charges New Jersey Senator Frank Lautenberg, a Democrat, has "allowed--deliberately--these sites to rot where they...
...Health Ministry reckons that China has 840,000 HIV-positive citizens, but the nation only recently admitted it had an epidemic. Last December, Wu descended from China's cloistered leadership compound and met one on one with the country's top AIDS activist, a retired country doctor named Gao Yaojie. "Wu Yi said to me, 'Now that everyone else is gone, you can tell me the truth,'" recalls Gao. Rather than bringing disaster, Wu is cleaning one up. --By Hannah Beech