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...Shanxi, the efforts of thousands of rescuers to save the remaining 26 miners have stalled because of extensive flooding, Xinhua reported. As their time underground approaches two weeks, the likelihood of their survival diminishes. For several dozen families, the miracle in Shanxi could still end up a disaster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China and West Virginia: A Tale of Two Mine Disasters | 4/8/2010 | See Source »

...you’d like to hear Gates speak, you can request a ticket up until noon on April 15. In all likelihood, there will be high demand for a chance to see the former head of Microsoft. The tickets are going to be lotteried and results will be released April...

Author: By Sophie T. Bearman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Dropout to Speak at Harvard | 4/6/2010 | See Source »

...some of the working groups’ suggestions have been made public. Smith has discussed the likelihood of using outside grants that science professors receive for their research to pay parts of their salary by the time the Faculty reaches budgeting for 2011-2012—an idea proposed in the working group of FAS’s science division...

Author: By Noah S. Rayman and Elyssa A. L. Spitzer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: FAS Waits For Dean’s Initiative | 3/30/2010 | See Source »

...report, titled "Deadly Delivery," notes that the likelihood of a woman's dying in childbirth in the U.S. is five times as great as in Greece, four times as great as in Germany and three times as great as in Spain. Every day in the U.S., more than two women die of pregnancy-related causes, with the maternal mortality ratio doubling from 6.6 deaths per 100,000 births in 1987 to 13.3 deaths per 100,000 births in 2006. (And as shocking as these figures are, Amnesty notes that the actual number of maternal deaths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Too Many Women Dying in U.S. While Having Babies | 3/12/2010 | See Source »

...Education Committee acknowledged the likelihood of increased administrative involvement...

Author: By Julie R. Barzilay, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: EdCom Votes to Advance Advising Website | 3/3/2010 | See Source »

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