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...Zeigler blames a lack of investment in agriculture. In much of Asia, rice farming remains small-scale and inefficient. In Thailand, for example, average yields are less than half that of either Chinese or U.S. farms. At the same time, Asia's rapid urbanization has gobbled up fecund farmland. In Vietnam's Bac Ninh province, 12 miles (19 km) from downtown Hanoi, shimmering emerald paddy fields are now bisected by a four-lane highway. Not far from where rice farmer Nguyen Thi Lan stands weeding her fields in calf-deep muck, a Singapore-Vietnamese joint venture will soon build...
...administration would like to know which issues most concerned students. Participants voiced a similar disconnect between the UC and the student body. “The UC has not stayed in contact with its constituents as much as it should,” Dowling said. Dowling said that a lack of transparency was not a Harvard-specific problem, but added that it is an area that should be improved. Susan S. Lee ’08, a member of the Phillips Brooks House Association who is on the review committee, suggested that the UC make a list of the roles...
...Kennedy School yesterday. Edwards, the wife of former presidential candidate John Edwards, gave the speech as part of her time as a spring visiting fellow at the IOP. Edwards specifically pointed to how she felt Delaware Senator Joe Biden’s presidential campaign had been hindered by a lack of media coverage. “On his behalf, I want to wager a complaint with the press of the United States for failing to treat that candidacy seriously,” Edwards said. She said that the press had focused on topics that should not be related to people?...
...Market forces alone will not be enough to solve this lack of primary care physicians. State and federal governments, in conjunction with medical schools, must create a system of tax breaks and subsidies—perhaps along the lines of the Harvard Law School’s recent decision to waive third-year tuition for students who pledge to work in public service for five years—to attract more medical students to the field of primary care. Subsidies for primary care residencies, altering the Medicare pay scale, and creating tax breaks for those who practice primary care could...
...businesses, schools and government activities have ground to a halt, reminiscent of bloody protests that have plagued this country for the last several decades - most recently in 2004, when former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was overthrown. President Rene Preval, respected for his probity but criticized for his lack of leadership and statesmanship, has been trying to improve Haiti's squalid conditions since taking office in 2006, but demonstrators squeezed by spiraling food costs say they're tired of waiting for a solution to their constant hunger. "We used to be hungry enough to drink Clorox," a local mechanic told TIME...