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...will involve a unique exchange of services that includes conservation, health care and disease research. Mt. Sinai's medical students and researchers will come to Panthera's 270-sq.-mi. (700-sq.-km) Pantanal ranch (which includes a jaguar habitat), where they will give free medical care to locals. That care, along with a free school that will be built for local children, will come under Panthera's banner, and the hope is that Brazilians will learn to appreciate both the medical care and the conservation work for jaguars. "People are given better schools and better health care...
...appeasement and a replacement of having direct neighborhood participation [in the planning process].” Glavin said he is open to the idea of petitioning Harvard to extend funding beyond the current five-year period, depending on whether the program is “responding well [to] local needs.” —Staff writer Vidya B. Viswanathan can be reached at viswanat@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Peter F. Zhu can be reached at pzhu@fas.harvard.edu...
Last weekend, two thousand speakers from 50 countries, including Kyrgyzstan and Singapore, gathered at Harvard for the 2009 American Comparative Literature Association annual meeting, “Global Languages, Local Cultures...
...some cried. His name sounded vaguely familiar to us, so we keyed up Wikipedia and YouTube to recall the accomplishments of this luminary, whoever he was. This was a mere halt though; after a thorough review of his credentials—and glowing testaments of his charm from local Cambridge housewives—the current anchor of the Today Show appears to be the perfect pick...
...Chiefs of Staff Chairman Admiral Mike Mullen told CNN last Friday, "and [its] support ... for militants [on both its Afghanistan and India borders] has to fundamentally shift." But the problem is not confined to the ISI or elements within it. In a recent truce between the Pakistani army and local Taliban groups in the Pakistani region of Bajaur, militants recanted their hostility to Pakistani security forces but vowed to concentrate on fighting NATO forces in Afghanistan. And Pakistan has been far more tolerant of Taliban forces on its soil who conduct operations in Afghanistan than of those who fight...