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...Lately, I’ve been wondering if my work was actually worth anything,” said Jarell L. Lee ’10, who is involved in a number of PBHA programs. “After hearing his speech, I literally felt like I had a tune-up, and I was ready to go on for a longer ride...
...result in political science shows that, under certain conditions, even widespread political ignorance in the populace has zero effect on the resulting policy, as long as the ignorance—to glibly oversimplify—is evenly distributed on both sides of an issue. After all, if the same number of people exist who are wrongly convinced that healthcare reform is dangerous as are wrongly convinced that it is a good idea, the tie will be broken by the informed. And no matter what each side may say, neither left nor right has a monopoly on political ignorance...
Unlike the way many other crews approached this competition, the Black and White did not send a second varsity eight or any novice boats. Given the sheer number of boats involved, a strategic shift is also needed to find success in this type of event...
...donkeys and camels, began spreading throughout the country with a fresh batch of ballot papers, tamper-proof boxes and indelible ink to be delivered to far-flung polling stations. This time, however, the task won't be quite so arduous. Afghanistan's election commission has decided to cut the number of polling stations by about 2,000 out of 25,000 in an attempt to mitigate some of the fraudulent methods practiced in the first round, when stations that never opened due to security fears nevertheless reported votes. The bulk of those stations were in the south and east, where...
...cities that make up Metropolitan Manila, only four out of 21 public health facilities were in operation as of Oct. 24. San Lazaro Hospital, the main government hospital specializing in infectious diseases, has treated 451 leptospirosis cases since the storm hit on Sept. 26 - nearly double the number of cases in the span of just a month than is usual for the whole last year. "We expected cases to rise because of the unusually heavy flooding, but we were not prepared for the numbers and we eventually ran out of testing kits," said Eumelia Salva, head of San Lazaro...