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...recent months, the Harvard College chapter has been soliciting donations for a project to overhaul the research facilities at Kenyatta University in Kenya—one of the poorest nations on the planet. According to Michael F. Qian ’11, co-president of the Harvard Seeding Labs chapter, the school hopes to become a major research facility but currently lacks the equipment to compete with other institutions of higher education...
...roughly 20-person chapter has focused on coordinating donations for research centers like the fledgling one at Kenyatta, but Dudnik said the organization—which also has chapters at Yale Medical School, Boston University, Mount Sinai Medical School, and Albert Einstein College—is expanding to help scientists in the developing world achieve parity in other ways as well...
...Kenya's wabenzi just got downgraded. Thanks to a government cost-cutting program aimed at saving taxpayers some $27 million, Finance Minister Uhuru Kenyatta announced this summer that government ministers, along with assistant ministers and permanent secretaries, must turn in their ubiquitous Mercedes-Benz for Volkswagen Passats, which not only cost about two-thirds the price of a new Benz in Kenya, but are, says the government, cheaper to run and maintain. (See the 50 worst cars of all time...
...Finance Minister Kenyatta (son of Kenya's first President) insists that a tender was run in 2008, though he has yet to produce proof of that process. Kenyatta says that the Passats send a message of frugality and insists the tender was aboveboard. "The purchase passes the test of integrity, transparency, accountability and public confidence as set in the law," he told a parliamentary committee that summoned him to clear up the Passat controversy in early November. He called all criticism "baseless, unfounded and untenable," and the result of "corporate wrangles and lobby interests...
...plan was that no minister - the President, Prime Minister and Vice President are exempt - be allowed to drive a car with an engine bigger than 1,800 cc. But some officials' old Mercedes have engines smaller than 1,800 cc. Should they be exempt from the change? No, said Kenyatta. Nevertheless, a few ministers have refused to turn in their luxury wheels. "We are not schoolchildren to be given uniforms in the form of Passats," Immigration Minister Otieno Kajwang said recently. (See the best cars from the 2009 Detroit Auto Show...