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...quake, and heavy clouds of ash and debris erupted in the hours that followed. But even if Merapi remains silent, the country still sits on one of the most geologically unstable patches of the earth, part of an earthquake-prone area called the Ring of Fire. For Indonesia, natural catastrophe has come to seem all too natural...
...engineering undergrads to schools with better-developed and better-hyped engineering programs—like Stanford, Princeton, and MIT—is a bad thing, right? Not necessarily.American college students take part in a unique educational tradition. Unlike their peers in Canada or Britain (or South Africa, or Indonesia, or just about anywhere else), undergraduates in this country profit from a liberal arts philosophy that seeks to produce well-educated citizens, not well-trained professionals. As the current Harvard College Curricular Review continues to seek new ways to liberalize undergraduate academics, most recently by delaying concentration choice to the middle...
Public fears of bird flu seem to have abated in recent weeks, but scientists know the world is always one viral mutation away from a deadly pandemic. That fact has been driven home again by a worrying cluster of human bird flu cases in rural Indonesia that could represent the first time the H5N1 virus has managed to pass from human to human to human. The cluster likely began with a 37-year-old woman who hosted a family pork roast on April 29 in the Indonesian village of Kubu Sembilang in north Sumatra. The woman had become sick...
...from it. The global supply of manufacturing labor more than doubled virtually overnight. In the context of largely open world markets, this has meant continuing downward pressure on global production costs. With upward of a billion people set to enter the urban labor markets of China, India, Brazil and Indonesia over the next 20 years, this pressure will only intensify. Should you doubt that, ask any labor union how much luck they have had lately in negotiating higher wages. More immediate forces are also at work to keep prices from surging. Despite wishful thinking in some quarters, growth in Europe...
...clouds of gas, raining ash on the fields below, and discharging streams of lava down the mountain. By last Saturday, the dome remained intact, but threatened to blow at any time. "We are still at the highest alert status," says Subandrio, director of the Merapi-observation division of Indonesia's Center of Volcanological Research and Technology in Yogyakarta. "An explosion is still very possible...