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...University’s Entrepreneurial Finance Laboratory will use the money—totalling almost $710,000—to address the lack of financing that can derail small and medium business enterprises in countries where these businesses are desperately needed to begin building a middle class...
...country, including Cornell, where it is paid for by a separate student fee, and Dartmouth, where it is funded by the student government, according to Erin Maghran, USA Today’s manager for higher education programs. Past attempts at bringing newspapers to campus have fizzled due to lack of permanent funding. A fall 2007 pilot program that offered the New York Times in dining halls with support form the UC, House Committees, and Harvard University Dining Services, ended due to a dearth of funding. An earlier trial period failed to muster enough UC support for permanent financing when legislation...
While Harvard University Dining Services has hired 14 undergraduates to serve as Food Literacy Representatives with the goal of educating students about its sustainability initiatives, thus far students have been more interested in airing their dining grievances. After a survey in the HUDS 2008 Sustainability Report noted that students lack fundamental knowledge about environmental sustainability, the representative positions were created as part of the HUDS food literacy project to help create programs based on students’ environmental interests. But some student representatives say they have been fielding a lot of complaints unrelated to sustainability...
...Mohammad's sentiments echo those of a handful of diplomats and military commanders in Afghanistan who have warned that the country is in a "downward spiral." Afghans are disillusioned by the lack of security and the failures of their government; Westerners focus on the resurgence of the Taliban. But the two are inextricably linked. Until basic security and the deep flaws of the government are addressed, the Taliban will continue to chalk up successes. And that's something that neither Afghans nor Westerners can afford...
...affected region. Recent Hurricanes Gustav and Ike mobilized MRC volunteers to support shelter operations and provide first aid in nearly a dozen states in the South. Nationwide, MRC volunteers have not only conducted pandemic influenza trainings but also now routinely staff annual flu vaccination clinics that would otherwise lack qualified health personnel. And, in the worst-case scenario of a bioterrorist threat, MRC members are committed to dispensing antibiotics and prophylaxis to thousands of their neighbors...