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...provide for themselves and their families—is its burgeoning tunnel economy that emerged long ago in response to the siege. Thousands of Palestinians are now employed digging tunnels into Egypt—around 1,000 tunnels are reported to exist although not all are operational. According to local economists, 90 percent of economic activity in Gaza—once considered a lower middle-income economy (along with the West Bank)—is presently devoted to smuggling...
...growth for me was equally vast. I learned Apple Computers, local area networks, email, venture capital, diversity training, thinking outside the box on a daily basis and much, much more. Most importantly, I learned how valuable it is to be forced—or to force oneself—to rethink old assumptions. Certainly, I had never thought of myself as being “entrepreneurial” or a “risk taker,” but putting those labels aside freed me to effect real change...
...statistics. Third, humans evolved in East Africa, making African genetic diversity greater than elsewhere in the world. Studying the interaction between environmental factors and genes elucidates disease mechanisms. Fourth, the unparalleled geographic, social, and cultural diversity may reveal risk factors as yet unknown. The final reason is to generate locally relevant results to stimulate political will for health promoting policy. The Harvard School of Public Health and African scientists have begun an ambitious project to start cohorts of 100,000 people in each of 4 countries covering west, east, and southern Africa. Doing so would reduce the US-Africa disparity...
...neighborhood non-profits to submit grant proposals for the upcoming year ended April 30. Harvard’s Allston Education Portal, established last summer as part of the Cooperation Agreement, has been one of the University’s most popular neighborhood initiatives. It currently provides mentoring for local students from undergraduates, a series of lectures from Harvard professors, and summer science clubs and scholarships. Later this month, Harvard will open for the second year its Allston Farmers’ Market, which will be located at the intersection of North Harvard St. and Western Ave. and aims to support local...
...From the start, its job was to turn out B-24 bombers, the workhorse of the U.S. Army Air Force's strategic campaigns in World War II, unaffectionately known to its crews as "the flying shithouse." The plant took a while to get going. There was a shortage of local labor, which meant that workers had to be imported from Appalachia (Ypsilanti, a local town, became known as "Ypsitucky"). Mosquitoes plagued the site until Henry Ford imported a bug-eating fish that Mussolini had found useful in draining the Pontine marshes in Italy. By 1944, Willow Run was turning...