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...their work - the country unknowingly laid the groundwork for electronic health records by putting in place centralized record keeping. "We are happy to be seen as a test bed for new technology," Ahrensberg says. "But we also recognize that every country is different and we had several advantages over larger countries like Britain, Canada or America." (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...
...says. During his junior year, Iweala had had the chance to meet former child soldier China Keitetsi when she came to give a talk to the Harvard African Students Association. While Iweala had already written a rough short story about a child soldier, Keitetsi inspired him to write something larger in scope. Iweala decided to set his novel in a fictional country in West Africa, but he felt that he had to understand the world of a child soldier before he could begin writing. He began reading texts on the subject and interviews with former child soldiers, as well...
...Addressing faculty, staff, and student leaders gathered in Sanders Theatre, Smith proposed a shift from piecemeal budget cuts to sweeping changes in FAS structure to close a larger-than-expected budgetary...
...larger point is that in most cases, damage done to the power supply can be undone. "In the banking system, if someone hacks the system and steals information about 500,000 credit cards, it's incredibly tough to undo that damage," says Mansoor. "But if a section of the power grid goes down, we start it up again...
...since 1911. Brian F. Farrell, a Harvard meteorology professor, acknowledged a connection between sunspot activity and temperatures on the Earth, but cited other research showing that sunspots only account for an overall temperature change of a tenth of a degree centigrade. Farrell did acknowledge that there could have been larger temperature effects caused by sunspots in the past. “A strong correlation between the amount of radioactive carbon and temperature from ice cores has shown that solar activity can affect temperature,” Farrell said. He cautioned that the link was “a hypothesis...[that...