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...thing, it is animated by a sort of irresistible exuberance. Everyone connected with the film acts as if none of their primitive motives and bustling activities has ever been seen before on any screen. Then, too, they seem to have the idea that they're not just making a kind of Down Under western. They're under the illusion that they're making a national epic, a film that symbolically addressed most of the foundational issues with which the Aussies have grappled since the first convict ships dumped their cargoes on the "fatal shore" in the 19th century. This...
...Many U.S. doctors and dentists were appalled at the idea of their patients turning to foreign hospitals for care that they considered dangerously cheap. But where many U.S. medical professionals saw great peril, countries like Cuba saw opportunities. Beginning in the late 1980s, the island country started programs to lure foreigners from India, Latin America and Europe for eye surgeries, heart procedures and cosmetic procedures. The Cuban government said it welcomed 2,000 medical tourists in 1990. (See pictures from an X-Ray studio...
...First, the idea that there is free land in East Africa is not quite accurate. From Sudan to Mozambique (countries where investors are looking to grow biofuel) land tenure and use has been shaped by a variety of factors including colonization, structural adjustment, direct foreign investment and agricultural inputs. I would hesitate to say there is free land in any one of those countries although here in Tanzania there is disagreement about what is available. A representative at the Ministry of Energy estimated for me that Tanzania is using only 10 percent of its 55 million hectares of arable land...
...changed her mind. “I actually did not sell my ticket and decided to go to the game because my friends basically dragged me there,” Ko said. “And I changed my mind because I thought that it would be a good idea to go to my senior year Harvard-Yale game.” —Staff writer Arianna Markel can be reached at amarkel@fas.harvard.edu...
...committee’s mission is being shaped in response to a University Health Services College committee meeting that was attended by students and administrators, said Holoshitz, who presented the idea for the committee to the UC as a whole at last night’s meeting...