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Although it remains far from Weimar Republic levels, inflation in Zimbabwe today hovers around 10,000 percent annually. The same political favorites that control seized farms, however, can still get American dollars at the official rate, making instant and gargantuan profits. As in any inflationary crisis, middle and lower class workers with fixed salaries suffer most, and according to some estimates, a third of the country now depends on the World Food Program for daily sustenance. Unbelievably, life expectancy in Zimbabwe has declined 30 years in just over a decade...
...campaign has since been endorsed by 284 schools. In a statement yesterday, Harvard spokesman John D. Longbrake said Faust’s endorsement confirmed “what has been a standing policy for Ivy League presidents.” The NCAA banned advertising for beverages over six percent alcohol-by-volume in 1989, but many schools said the policy, as well as the cap on beer advertising, was insufficient. “That exception defies and contravenes the reality on the ground at the college level regarding the beverage of choice and of devastation,” Hacker said...
Many figures regarding higher education in America are encouraging: As of 2005, there were over eight million students attending four-year colleges, and that number is expected to increase by 16 percent by the year 2014. There are other numbers, however, that are depressing. These pertain to college loans, which are steadily increasing. Private lenders saw a 734 percent increase between 1993 and 2003 in the money they loaned to students, and it is these private loans compared to federal loans that have much higher interest rates and less flexible payments. About 15 percent of students at four-year colleges...
...spite of the dire need for family physicians throughout the United States, however, American medical students continue to shy away from primary care as a career. Since 1997, the number of medical students entering family medicine residencies has fallen by 50 percent. This year, a two percent increase in family medicine residents was considered by the American Association of Family Physicians to be a triumph. Foreign medical students now fill most of the spaces in family care residencies; this summer, 56 percent of entering primary care residents will be foreign medical students...
...Prestige also contributes to the high proportion of specialists. In one study, only 37 percent of those intending to go into family care ended up in family practice. Those who defected were more likely than those rejecting other specialties to quote a lack of prestige, anxiety over mastering a wide breadth of knowledge, and paradoxically, a low academic content as the reasons for their change in focus...