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...Providing widespread Internet access that is both fast and affordable has benefits that extend far beyond creature comforts like downloading movies. A recent report from the World Bank Group found that a 10 percent increase in connection speeds is correlated with a 1.3 percent increase in economic growth. The faster the Internet becomes, the more purposes it can serve; high-speed Internet is the basis for many local IT businesses that generate jobs and exports. Expanding the high-speed Web to rural areas and increasing speeds in developed areas will also make long-distance learning easier and expand the possibilities...
...Washington D.C.-based Police Executive Research Forum and chair of the panel, said that the Committee is expected to meet for three to five months before releasing a report. He praised the Committee’s “considerable experience” and said that the group would provide independent assessment and insight into the incident. Since announcing the formation of the Committee in July, city officials have stressed that the aim of the panel is not to compile an “action report” of the arrest, but to look at the incident more broadly...
...it’s a great time to be Harvard. We heard from a lot of companies that Harvard is their top target school.” According to Mount, the Fair’s success can also be linked to the presence of new recruiters including Knight Capital Group, Anheuser-Busch, Major League Baseball, and the National Basketball Association. David W. Kunst ’07, a recruiter for the financial services company Raymond James, said that he noticed more non-traditional public service tables this year than when he attended the fair two years ago as a recruiter...
Most Harvard students eat meat. And most Americans probably think of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals as an extremist group...
...proposed subjects for talks that included nonproliferation of nuclear weapons but omitted any mention of Iran's uranium-enrichment efforts, which have been the focus of Western anxiety. It's hardly the response Obama hoped for, but the U.S. and its five partners in the P5+1 negotiating group (France, Germany, Britain, Russia and China) went ahead and asked for a meeting with Tehran anyway - if for no other reason than to "test the proposition" that Iran is ready for dialogue, as State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley put it. (Read "How Obama Hopes to Restart Mideast Peace Talks...