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...student-faculty interaction at Harvard, those exchanges are often hard to come by. Students in fields such as government or economics rarely enjoy meaningful exchanges with their professors, or, if they do, have to be combatively assertive in securing the opportunity. And forget about going outside the department: For those not in a special concentration such as social studies or history and literature, interdisciplinary or even integrative approaches to the focus of our academic inquiry are often all too rare. The study of Europe is particularly hard-hit by both of these problems. European issues—philosophy...
...down tax loopholes that encourage companies to take jobs abroad. Instead, we should offer tax incentives for companies to manufacture here in America, like a 10 percent tax credit for corporations that produce goods here and keep jobs at home. And we should be bringing venture capital to areas hard-hit by job loss, especially rural communities with entrepreneurs eager to start small businesses if they can only get some help. We should be exporting American products, not American jobs...
...editor of the Udayavani, an influential Kannada-language newspaper. Indeed, the politics of caste still count-and Mallya, a member of a tiny mercantile caste, has yet to win over the support of any major caste in Karnataka. Certainly, many of his views should resonate with the state's hard-hit rural masses. He notes with outrage that some of the state's farmers, charged interest rates of 60% by middlemen, have committed suicide by swallowing pesticide. Why, he asks, can't a system of credit be devised in which the middleman is eliminated? But because Mallya barely speaks...
SARS is claiming fewer victims. On June 12 hard-hit Hong Kong experienced is first day without new SARS cases or deaths, and the World Health Organization has lifted its travel advisory on some parts of China. But it's too early to assume the disease will live on only in medical-school case histories. In Toronto, where officials thought SARS was all but eradicated in late April, doctors are dealing with a second outbreak in which more than 100 infections have been traced to the fourth floor of Toronto's North York General Hospital. Last week, officials were also...
...that Taiwan may be losing. Elsewhere, there were strong signs last week that the SARS epidemic was running out of steam. Toronto was removed from the World Health Organization's (WHO) list of travel danger zones, and a WHO official said it appeared the disease was waning even in hard-hit Hong Kong, where the number of new infections had fallen to just a handful a day. But the fever is spiking in Taiwan. Since the Hoping Hospital outbreak, the number of SARS victims has soared from 28 to 308, a 91% increase in just three weeks, while the number...