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Although Rockefeller’s gift will certainly improve Harvard’s international opportunities for students with this influx of money, the Office of International Programs will also have to step up its administrative processes in order to take full advantage of the donation. The gift will go a long way in terms of funding students and programs, but within the study abroad administration, there could still be improvements on various different aspects of the process, such as transferring of course credits and student advising...
...Corps found that Cape Cod’s dependence on fossil fuels, foreign oil, and natural gas would all be reduced by the Cape Wind project. Additionally, the price of electricity in any market spot in New England would drop, and the Cape Cod economy would benefit from an influx of new and related projects. This study went on to research and analyze other areas of life on the Cape that this project might affect, and it found that there would most likely be no harmful effects on Cape Cod real estate or tourism, maintaining these foundations of the local...
...influx of foreigners has created a small yoga economy in Mysore. "Whatever they want, we give," says N. Harish Bheemaiah, managing director of Mysore Mandala Yogashala - lessons in classical Indian dance, music and painting, sattvik (vegetarian) food, accommodation, ayurvedic massage, and so on. In between coconut groves and rice paddies, cafes and eateries catering to foreigners have sprung up. An Austrian Caf? loudly announces itself with an orange-and-blue sign; not very far away is a Subway sandwich shop. But the locals are largely unaware of their city's status among the international yoga jet-set. Many...
...official surnamed Wu at the Foreign Affairs Department in Khotan said he wasn't aware of such a policy.) Some Uighurs, who are a central Asian people ethnically much closer to Turks than Chinese, expressed fears that their culture and way of life could be threatened by a steady influx of Han Chinese. The wave of immigration has seen the Han share of the province's population - estimated at about 6% in 1949 - rise to an official 40%, a figure that is much higher if millions of undocumented migrant workers are included. That massive immigration has transformed the north...
America's health-care system won't be able to adequately support the 78 million baby boomers, who will start turning 65 in 2011, according to a new National Academy of Sciences report. The influx of people entering the system will exceed the number of providers who can care for them: there are only 7,100 physicians certified in geriatrics in the U.S., for example--only 1 for every 2,500 older Americans...