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...they identified, but they also genuinely feared a loss of precious House community. The extent to which these fears have been assuaged is due largely to the leadership of existing Masters and the College’s ability to replenish departing ones with Faculty members who are willing to invest their time and effort to creating a vibrant House life...

Author: By Jordana R. Lewis, | Title: The Master Makeover | 4/26/2001 | See Source »

...Latin America complain that while the increasingly militarized nature of drug interdiction efforts are unlikely to resolve the problem of drug abuse in the U.S., it does wreak havoc with democracy in the region. In Colombia, for example, narco-traffickers have found that the best way to protect their investment from interdiction is to enlist the support of either leftist guerrillas or rightist paramilitaries, providing the gunmen with the revenues to keep their war going in perpetuity. And just as much as the U.S. government uses economic aid to enlist the support of Latin American governments to join...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peru Plane Tragedy Highlights a Troubled War on Drugs | 4/24/2001 | See Source »

...parents who follow their children's cues quickly learn that. "When our son was little, all he wanted to do was play with us," says Sharon Chantiles, a casting director and the mother of a four-year-old. "I decided to walk away from the fancy toys and invest in him as a child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Quest For A Superkid | 4/22/2001 | See Source »

...Barnett: We know what works for kids, what's good for them: Well-paid, well-trained teachers in a stimulating and educational environment. But we're unwilling to invest in developing that kind of system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do Preschools and Nannies Turn Kids Into Bullies? | 4/19/2001 | See Source »

...protected prices put most Western AIDS-treatment drugs way beyond the means of South Africa's cash-strapped government, which was a primary reason for the government's reluctance to provide mass treatment. Unmoved by the pharmaceutical corporations' argument that protected patents were the crucial incentive for companies to invest in developing new treatments, the Treatment Action Group made common cause with AIDS activists in the industrialized countries on a two-pronged program - to press pharmaceutical corporations to slash their prices, and to press governments to allow developing countries to buy cheaper generic copies of patented AIDS drugs from India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South African AIDS Activist Zackie Achmat | 4/19/2001 | See Source »

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