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...major question is what impact the virus will have in the next flu season, when the conditions could be ripe for the disease to spread rapidly. Another concern is what will happen in developing countries that haven't yet had to deal with H1N1. Rich countries like the U.S. can afford to spend millions on antivirals like Tamiflu, but in poorer nations, especially in those parts of sub-Saharan Africa where rampant HIV makes the population more vulnerable to secondary infections like flu, H1N1 will likely take a far greater toll. Indeed, health officials said last week that early evidence...
...Actual Retail Price: Any Ec major will tell you, workers involuntarily doing part-time hours is just as bad as unemployment. It's also a great way to save money without the public stigma of firing people. Oh yeah, we're not offering new jobs. Sorry, SLAM...
...culmination of these efforts was a forum at Harvard last fall between the Stonewall Democrats and Log Cabin Republicans, the national-level gay contingencies of both major parties. The national chairs of each organization debated which presidential candidate was best for the LGBT community, the type of discussion Kwong says he feels needs to be had at Harvard. “I feel like being a gay Republican, and being open about it, I can help change views of the people around me.” Kwong says...
...real father?) For the first third of the movie, James is a budding sociopath; as a kid he steals a car and, when pursued by a cop, nearly drives it over a cliff; later he picks bar brawls with packs of space studs. Anger management was not a major issue with Shatner's Kirk, but that was a different century. Pike's Kirk has to be the hot-tempered yang to the yin of Quinto's Spock - who also gets an overhaul. Half-Vulcan, half-human, his nature is at constant war not only with Kirk's but with itself...
...Today, Smith will make a major announcement about Harvard’s budgetary priorities for the next fiscal year, as well as the procedures to decide future budget cuts. While Smith has many concerns to address, I (and many others) would urge him to take the needs of Harvard’s lower-income workers into account. At an institution in which values such as diversity, sustainability, and public service—none of them “core” to Harvard’s educational mission—nonetheless inhabit the niche of respected priorities, where...