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...toward the Indian innovators. Not only should India’s government more actively facilitate such accessible transport, but also the rest of the world should applaud Tata’s step in a positive direction.Economics professor Lawrence H. Summers has said that current levels of gross domestic product per capita in India—essentially, standards of living—are roughly equivalent to those in America pre-Civil War. As such, the closest automobile comparison to the Nano would be the Ford Model T. The Model T first rolled off the assembly line in 1908, its production reaching...
...March of this year, Harvard Medical International (HMI) will be history. HMI—a $21 million-per-year subsidiary of the Harvard Medical School (HMS) that provides health care consulting services in over 30 countries around the world—has incurred the disapproval of several key University Hall figures, those of whom decided to sell off the program to the private firm Partners HealthCare. It seems that many in the central administration, such as Provost Steven E. Hyman and Vice Provost for International Affairs Jorge I. Dominguez, have concluded that as HMI’s focus shifted from...
...mission of the CDIA is to explore digital technology throughout the world, which is exactly what Nollywood is,” he says.According to the documentary, the Nigerian film industry, now third in size behind India and the United States, has a revenue approaching $250 million per year and produces about 1,000 films annually on a budget of about $15,000 per film.Once the film begins, it’s easy to see how this kind of cost cutting is possible. Throughout Sacchi and Caputo’s work, all signs point to an industry whose demand has vastly...
...Funding for the Princeton plan has not yet been determined, as many proposed projects have not even been zoned, Cliatt said. Still, Princeton has a deep bankroll from which to draw—its nearly $16 billion endowment is the largest in higher education on a per-capita basis. —Staff writer Aditi Balakrishna can be reached at balakris@fas.harvard.edu...
...club team. As players from the rugby and ultimate frisbee teams will aver, club teams do not have much respect at Harvard. They receive very little funding from the athletic department—a staff editorial in The Crimson last year placed the figure at an average of $400 per team per year—and they are not allowed to use the varsity facilities, and they have to take care of all of their own scheduling and equipment...