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...While the risk factors for a disease may cross borders freely, the cultural understanding it takes to treat it doesn't. Americans may live in a world of pink ribbons and LIVESTRONG bracelets, but in other parts of the globe, breast cancer is still a shameful secret. Every three minutes an Egyptian woman is informed that she has the illness, and one of her first fears is that her husband will leave her. Secrecy leads not only to misery but also to misinformation. In India, women with breast cancer may be forced to use separate plates and spoons because...
...Indians, or the children of Indians, living outside the country. Writers such as Salman Rushdie, who left India in his teens and has lived abroad for most of his adult life, and Nobel-prizewinning writer V.S. Naipaul, born in Trinidad of Indian descent, may be lauded around the globe but their reception in India is often less than warm...
...someone with an extensive criminal history. According to a Cambridge Traffic, Parking, and Transportation spokesman, the alleged heist cost the city at least $37,000 in replacement fees Assistant District Attorney Kate Cimini estimated that the final cost in lost revenue would be closer to $100,000, the Boston Globe reported. All of the meters in Gannon’s house were found emptied with tags of their designated street addresses. Six of the parking meters were from Somerville, while the rest were from the East Cambridge area. While the Cambridge Traffic, Parking, and Transportation department had noticed that meters...
...Along with many other economists around the globe, however, Naudé adds that letting the dollar's value decay in the medium and longer term will send a terrible message to foreign investors about the U.S. economy as a whole. "In wider terms, the dollar reflects the richness of the American economy, and a cheapened, sliding dollar will eventually send the same economic image out abroad," Naudé says. That could influence the foreign banks and give investors injecting $3 billion worth of capital required every day to keep the U.S. economy growing second thoughts about where they place their...
Following the media hype from less sexy publications like Newsweek and The Boston Globe, H-Bomb printed two issues in 2004 and 2005, warranting praise from Playboy: “Harvard—not as square as we remember it.” After featuring an essay written by a S.L.U.T (Sexually Liberated Urban Twenty-something) and a piece on free Trojans and those who “continue to use such shitty condoms on a regular basis,” the magazine then folded for a year due to lack of leadership when many of its earliest contributors graduated...