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...coastal areas triple or quadruple those in the rural hinterland. Not only must Hu attempt to engineer a soft landing for China's steaming economy and markets, he must also ensure that the myriad problems facing the hundreds of millions of Chinese left on the margins of the boom - lack of access to health care, education and clean drinking water, among other issues - are addressed. If they are not, social unrest could rapidly increase. The number of "mass incidents," large demonstrations that often deteriorate into violence, hit a record in 2005, according to the most recent full-year government statistics...
...words before Dumbledore dies in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, yet Rowling couldn't spare two of those words to help define a central character's emotional identity: "I'm gay." We can only conclude that Dumbledore saw his homosexuality as shameful. His silence suggests a lack of personal integrity that is completely out of character...
...government might fear—the type of story that every college journalist dreams of but that few find. Yet the rarity of a situation is not sufficient grounds to exclude it from the law. And if a student journalist does happen to stumble upon an important story, the lack of shield law protection may give him or her second thoughts about pursuing it, leading to the same chilling effect that Congress is seeking to eliminate. The exclusion of college journalists also overlooks their important contributions to the media. College newspapers provide a vital training ground for professional journalists. Excluding...
...what I find so appealing about B-47, other than the lack of labs, is that it makes life make sense. As a humanities concentrator overwhelmed by complicated, postfeminist relationships and a sprawling, postmodern thesis, I like learning how physical and emotional reactions rely on small molecules. When Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology Jon Clardy explained that naturally frisky male meadow voles suddenly became faithful and prone to “huddling” with females when injected with a gene of their monogamous cousin the prairie vole, the eyes of every woman in the class...
...organizers of the event, explains. “It’s a form of dodgeball thought to have originated in Israel, usually played in a sandy pit at a lot of Jewish Community Center camps.” Due to the lack of a pit at the Harvard Hillel, where the game was held, students instead lined up six folding tables on their sides to form a make-shift pit. “With each bounce, everyone says the word ga…ga…ga,” Levin-Gesundheit slowly enunciates, illustrating the suspense between bounces...