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...dollars they pump into corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs in the developing world. The U.S. drug industry says it has created 126 health partnerships with governments and aid organizations that have helped up to 539 million people since 2000. Some observers remain cynical, however. They say CSR is mere window dressing - a clinic here, an outreach program there - that does not address the root problem of how to get drugs to the broadest number of people who need them most...
...kind of reaction from my classmates. And it wasn’t just class pride: during the Crimson Key Society’s screening of “Love Story,” the sight of Weld Hall drew cheers from a few and boos from the rest. The mere mention of the word “Canaday” was enough to send a section of any freshman gathering into a frenzy, and the only time you’ll hear Harvard students boo Yale like the class of 2011 did this week is during The Game.It...
...growing abuse of prescription painkillers, which now ranks second - behind marijuana use - as the nation's most prevalent illegal drug problem, according to the Office of National Drug Control Policy. But in tracking drugs like OxyContin, also known as "hillbilly heroin," officials must first distinguish drug abuse from mere "medical misuse," Compton says. Officials actually had to modify the NSDUH survey after realizing that some methamphetamine users failed to report using the drug because they were taking it with a prescription...
...witnessing the to-and-fro of an ancient institution at battle with itself and its students, as Harvard tries the hardest it ever has to get its undergraduates out of famed Harvard Yard for a mere one semester out of eight. The Ivy gates are indeed more permeable than ever, thanks to great initiative by the Office of International Programs...
...hawks and perpetual gladiators who cannot imagine a world without conflict and will not prepare the world for peace. The university will have capitulated to the think-tank. Nor is the study of war a small and specialized field best left to the military academies. It goes far beyond mere tactics and covers a broad swath of knowledge that touches many conventional disciplines from political science and international relations to economics, sociology, anthropology, and public policy. Harvard has a handful of war scholars and courses directly related to the subject. But the topic is so vast and important...