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Toilets are a privilege that nearly half the world lacks. At least 2.6 billion people around the planet have no access to a toilet - and that doesn't just mean that they don't have a nice, heated indoor bathroom. It means they have nothing - not a public toilet, not an outhouse, not even a bucket. They defecate in public, contaminating food and drinking water, and the disease toll due to unsanitized human waste is staggering. George notes that 80% of the world's illnesses are caused by fecal matter: A single gram of feces can contain 10 million viruses...
...Kirby, and his possible role in the government fraud scandal that implicated his close friend, economics professor Andrei Shleifer ’82.And while these issues proved fatal to his presidency, both his supporters and critics now suggest that Summers’ difficulties leading Harvard don’t mean he wouldn’t make a good Treasury secretary.‘LOTS OF BIG EGOS’Summers, who has also served as the World Bank’s chief economist, helped oversee the longest period of sustained economic growth in U.S. history as President Clinton?...
...unnecessary penalties, Hoyle, the team’s excellent defense, and the penalty kill will be the team’s only hope at keeping winning streak alive. “We have to recognize that just because we’ve had a penalty doesn’t mean the ref is less likely to call another one,” Donato said. “We have to make sure that, if we take a penalty, it’s because we are trying to negate a real dangerous scoring attempt, not hits into the boards or offensive...
...psychology at Boston College and a senior research associate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, tested a group of 59 musicians and non-musicians ranging from eight to eleven years old. The tests showed that the children who had played piano and, or a string instrument for a mean of 4.63 years performed better on tasks that tested both skills that are both related and unrelated to playing a musical instrument, according to Schlaug, “The ones that learn to play musical instruments have to learn to recognize and interpret visual patterns very quickly...
Europeans saw a fervent wish fulfilled with Barack Obama's election victory, but it could mean more than they bargained for. For all their enthusiasm over the prospect of a new tone from Washington, European governments now face the sobering realization that the new President is far better placed than his predecessor to call on Europe to put more troops in harm's way in Afghanistan. It is a call they'd rather not take, but one that some may find hard to refuse...