Word: globalization
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...conference—also sponsored by the Harvard School of Public Health, the Harvard Global Equity Initiative, and several affiliate hospitals—engaged faculty, students, medical professionals, women’s health advocates, and health policy makers in discussions on finding ways to reduce breast cancer mortality rates and increase breast cancer awareness in poorer areas of the world...
...believe that we have to get out the word that breast cancer is public health priority in the developing world,” said Felicia M. Knaul, an HMS Professor and Director of the Harvard Global Equity Initiative. “That’s a point that hasn’t come through in the literature and existing research...
...political position too. And you see moderate bias - i.e., a preference for centrism - whenever a news outlet assumes that the truth must be "somewhere in the middle." You see it whenever an organization decides that "balance" requires equal weight for an opposing position, however specious: "Some, however, believe global warming is a myth." (Moderate bias would also require me to find a countervailing liberal position and pretend that it is equivalent to global-warming denial. Sorry...
...water. Many of the cabins on Don Det are owned by farmers capitalizing on the island's burgeoning tourist trade, so don't be surprised to find pigs and chickens wandering the grounds, or a farm dog curled up on your porch in the morning. (See TIME's Global Adviser for exotic, beautiful and interesting getaways...
...Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has long let it be known that he thinks the imbalances between the U.S. and China contributed to the financial breakdown of the global economy. China's excess savings were sloshing around and needed a home, and profligate America was more than willing to borrow those savings. On Oct. 19, Bernanke gave a speech in which he said that while personal savings in the U.S. is now rising, the government had to get its own accounts in better order. He then pointedly noted that "policies that artificially enhance incentives for domestic savings and the production...