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Designs for Life As the number of European Muslims grows - from 12 million a decade ago to 20 million today - so does the need for mosques. A 2007 report by the Italian Department for Security Information found the number of mosques in the country had grown from 351 to 735 in a mere seven years. Mosque numbers in France and Germany have also exploded. While Europe's churches sit empty or are converted into luxury lofts and schools, Muslims are building mosques in old nightclubs and supermarkets, in former sauerkraut and pharmaceutical factories and, yes, abandoned churches. As Muslims...
...regret, sex, mortality. And Paul's patients echo the four he treated last season: a woman with whom he has a personal history, a confrontational control freak, a troubled student with a secret and a bitterly fighting married couple. But like a successful patient, the show has learned and grown, becoming more reliably compelling...
...original proposal that Menand and Simmons’ task force submitted to the Faculty in October had seven categories—the same number that the Core currently contains. By February, it had grown to eight...
...presidential aspirations, created the Narcotic Addiction and Control Commission in 1967, aimed at helping addicts get clean. After the program proved too costly and ineffective, New York launched the Methadone Maintenance Program, which similarly caused little reduction in drug use. But by 1973, calls for stricter penalties had grown too loud to ignore, prompting Albany to enact legislation that created mandatory minimum sentences of 15 years to life for possession of four ounces of narcotics - about the same as a sentence for second-degree murder. The statutes became known as the Rockefeller Drug Laws - a milestone in America...
...Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship, which will be given annually to an HBS alum, is indicative of a growing focus on social enterprise at the Business School. In 2001, the HBS Business Plan Contest added a social enterprise track, and attendance at the school’s Social Enterprise Conference has grown consistently. And with the economic downturn limiting traditional job opportunities, more students have begun to explore social causes. Faculty Co-Chair of the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative Herman “Dutch” B. Leonard ’74, who served on the selection committee for the fellowship, said...