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...should be on eliminating the very real health problem of HPV and cervical cancer, not on the unproven and hypothetical side effects. Health officials should continue to monitor the vaccination, but all current information shows only benefits to the vaccine.The vaccine has been criticized for being costly at $120 per dose. In order to remedy this, health officials should work to make the vaccine as cheap and accessible as possible, and more insurance companies should include it in their coverage plans. Some people also object to the time the three-part process takes. Even if it is slightly time-consuming...

Author: By Claire G. Bulger | Title: Dying for Equality | 9/14/2008 | See Source »

...spring. “So what we’ve been talking about is really the use of the strategic payout.” Harvard’s $36.9 billion endowment is the largest in higher education, though it trails Princeton’s $16 billion endowment on a per-capita basis. Under increasing scrutiny, Harvard and other wealthy universities have defended their sub-five percent payout rates as necessary to build a cushion against periods of financial downturn. Several of Harvard’s schools are heavily dependent on endowment money to fund their operating budgets. While some Harvard...

Author: By Clifford M. Marks and Nathan C. Strauss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: $1.6B In Spending; Short of 5 Percent Payout Goal | 9/12/2008 | See Source »

...fact, it was once Indonesia that showed Asia the way out of the poorhouse. In 1980, when Deng Xiaoping was first nudging China toward the free market, Indonesia's per capita GDP was more than double China's. Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, Indonesia's fast-growing manufacturing sector was a magnet for foreign investment, and rural development schemes were so successful that the nation became self-sufficient in rice for the first time. The government even had ambitions to build commercial jets and cars. But since the 1997 Asian financial crisis, Indonesia has been virtually marching in place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Holding Indonesia Back? | 9/11/2008 | See Source »

...says she "put on eBay" was never actually sold there. She once supported the prizewinning piece of pork known as the "bridge to nowhere" that she claims to have opposed. And though it was legal under Alaskan law, some found it unseemly that she claimed thousands of dollars in per diem expenses as governor while living at home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sarah Show | 9/11/2008 | See Source »

...Zealand are currently the only counties that do not ban drug companies from directly advertising their products to consumers. The Food and Drug Administration loosened pharmaceutical advertising restrictions in 1997, and pharmaceutical research companies now spend $4.8 billion per year on DTCA...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HMS Study Finds No Influence from Direct Drug Ads | 9/11/2008 | See Source »

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