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Completed study card?...? Wait, you say, what is that? Do I need to bring index cards? Well, not exactly, my frosh friend. Study cards are just Harvard’s way of registering what classes you are taking during any given semester. And oh the possibilities...
...that backdrop, the idea that foreign soldiers can provide a little added security while development projects and local security forces gain momentum does not seem far-fetched. But a much darker set of indicators is also at work. Afghanistan ranks 117 out of 158 on Transparency International's 2005 index of perceived corruption. Around 60% of the population has no electricity, and 80% no potable water. The returning refugees have found few houses or jobs. The country is the world's biggest supplier of opium, the raw material for heroin. The illegal drug economy - which some analysts estimate is equivalent...
...nurses. And by a number of measures, this government-managed health-care program--socialized medicine on a small scale--is beating the marketplace. For the sixth year in a row, VA hospitals last year scored higher than private facilities on the University of Michigan's American Customer Satisfaction Index, based on patient surveys on the quality of care received. The VA scored 83 out of 100; private institutions, 71. Males 65 years and older receiving VA care had about a 40% lower risk of death than those enrolled in Medicare Advantage, whose care is provided through private health plans...
...have been all the rage the past few years, with U.S. investors plowing billions of dollars into the far corners of the globe, from Pakistan to Peru. If you take a look at how some of those regions have performed, it's no wonder. The iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index exchange-traded fund (ETF), which tracks a basket of stocks from such countries as Taiwan, South Africa, Turkey and Poland, is up 89% over the past two years. That trounces the S&P 500's 18% gain. A dip in stocks worldwide this spring shook emerging markets the hardest--India...
...Three years ago the state legislature approved an unusual program calling for every public school student in the state to be evaluated for obesity using a standard height-weight calculation known as body mass index, or BMI. At the time, figures from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) not only showed that the incidence of child obesity had doubled in the U.S. since 1980, they revealed that Arkansas had one of the highest rates in the nation: 20.9% of the state's youngsters were overweight while another 17% fell into the borderline "at risk" category. Nationally the figures were...