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...government of the island nation of Cyprus has pledged $8.8 million towards increasing opportunities in public health education, research, and outreach as part of a recent agreement between the Harvard School of Public Health and the Cyprus University of Technology...
Ultimately, Bertic said, the goal of the collaboration with Cyprus is to develop the existing degree programs into a school of public health on the island, which does not yet have such an institution...
...Rhode Island handily won the regatta, besting runner-up Connecticut by 20 points...
...thickly furred dog, panting in the tropical heat of Indonesia's Sumatra island, was confused. The retriever had picked up the scent of a human in the wreckage of a local college in the city of Padang, which was struck by an earthquake two days before, killing at least 515 people, according to local disaster management officials, with some 4000 more believed to still be buried. But the canine, which had arrived by chartered jet from Switzerland just hours before, hesitated. She licked the air and waved her muzzle back and forth. Something about the smell wasn't right...
...been two days since an earthquake struck the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Sept. 30, killing upwards of 1,100, according to the last U.N. estimate. But small signs of life are returning to the villages surrounding the town of Pariaman, where at least 234 people have been confirmed killed and another 400 are missing and presumed dead. Boys are using makeshift rackets to play badminton amid the wreckage of houses with walls peeled away or roofs pitched at impossible angles. In one community around 20 km (12.4 miles) from the quake's epicenter, a local entertainer gathered an audience...