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...women and the elderly?” said Joan D. Hill, a retired Harvard employee and one of the dozens of senior citizens who filled the audience during the meeting. Mark R. Finucane, a health science advisor who has been working with CHA said the Alliance would try to maintain its commitment to underprivileged populations by preserving the most utilized programs. Earlier this year, CHA hired Finucane and the firm Ernst and Young to create a strategic plan that would address its financial problems. But progress on that plan was “scrambled” when the state announced...
...During the playing of the National Anthem, a commercial "introducing bigger, tastier chicken stripes" blasted from the TVs in the press box. Really hard to maintain composure after that...
...possible slowdown in China, whose soaring economy this decade has sent oil prices rocketing, and helped to ignite a scramble for new oil exploration and drilling in numerous developing countries from Ecuador to Angola, whose economies have surged along with the oil prices. "OPEC needs to see China maintain its rate of growth," Robert Johnston, energy director for the Eurasia Group in Washington said before the OPEC meeting. Without China's continued thirst for new oil, OPEC production cuts will have a limited impact...
...mail urging Harvard students to maintain “free expression” on campus hit students’ inboxes earlier this week—but with no indication of the motivation behind the message...
...major nickel mine being developed near Andasibe is an ominous possibility.) "With ecotourism, the protected areas and parks are less likely to be used for strip mining," says Neel Inmadar, senior adviser on ecotourism for the green group Conservation International (CI). "You'll never stop development, but you can maintain the environment while providing economic benefit...