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...universities than 20 years ago, they too must struggle. Compared to American universities in particular, which the British government frequently extols, they are poor and getting relatively poorer. Harvard professors earn 70% more, on average, than their Cambridge counterparts. All U.K. universities put together were able to harvest $414 million from their investments in 2000; the comparable figure for Yale alone this year is $405 million. Oxford is proud that its spinoff companies are collectively worth about $3 billion; graduates of M.I.T., according to a 1997 study, had founded over 4,000 companies that in 1994 alone had revenues...
...saved thousands of girls from being sold into brothels, might be the wives of village heads. Teachers know which children are vulnerable, and some alert procurers for a fee. Sompop has seen pickup trucks leaving schools full of girls sold to brothels in what is called the "green harvest." A police officer is often at the wheel. "This is a war," Sompop says, "a war for our children...
Great events in india have been shaped by the politics of the lynch mob. The last and decisive impetus to the great divide between Hindus and Muslims, which in turn led to the bitter harvest of partition in 1947, was provided by the Muslim mobs of Calcutta who ravaged the city in 1946. In 1984, Sikhs were identified, torched and killed by sword and bullet after the assassination of Indira Gandhi. In 1992 the destruction of a mosque on a disputed spot in the holy city of Ayodhya, where the Himalayas begin to meet the plains, was followed by wanton...
...center of a modern economic and environmental dispute. In launching a coordinated, science-based program for managing and preserving sturgeon stocks - replacing the competing national systems of past years - Iran and four former Soviet republics also met international requirements for proceeding with this year's caviar harvest...
...overarching presence of the lake sets the rhythm of the human year. The way McGahern describes the changing lights, the colors of the foliage, the life of the animals and the demands of planting and harvest is intuition distilled to intensity—a mellow intensity, so to speak. His careful attention to the way people more in their environment is evident even in the brief appearance of a London visitor: “He washed, walked around the lake, read a newspaper. The way he crackled the pages as he read created a space around the rocking chair...