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...America’s eyes remain transfixed on the economy at home and the war on terror abroad, the plight of our nation’s health care is being ignored. Medicare and Medicaid, the already-troubled social welfare programs that subsidize health care for the elderly and the poor, do not reimburse doctors enough to entice many of them into accepting new patients. The American Academy of Family Physicians estimates that at least one in six physicians turns Medicare patients away, a problem exacerbated by a 5.4 percent decrease in Medicare payments to doctors this year. It is tragic...
...exhibit’s portrayal of the plight of Palestinian children has drawn criticism from those who feel the exhibit is too one-sided...
...this show accomplishes what it sets out to do—to raise awareness of the plight of women in Nepal and tell the story of shattered lives in a way that somehow strengthens the power of their dreams. The collection is unpretentious, intimate and honest...
...been stated many times before, terrorism is a weapon of the weak, and is directly tied to the plight of the developing world. Terrorists find safe haven and willing recruits among the discontented and the destitute populations of poor nations, playing upon broad social and economic inequalities to rally support for their cause. What is needed, then, for nations like Yemen and Afghanistan, is an effectively managed, comprehensive aid program aimed at combating these ills: bringing populations direct economic relief, teaching sustainable development practices, building infrastructure and stabilizing weak governments...
There is an opportunity for Harvard students to help the plight of these farmers by buying fairly traded coffee. Fair trade coffee is purchased directly from small, democratically run farmers’ cooperatives. Farmers are guaranteed a minimum price of $1.26 per pound, and if market prices rise above the fair trade premium, farmers receive 10 cents more than the market price. Fair trade coffee is a feasible alternative because it is bought directly from cooperatives, instead of through exploitative middlemen, called coyotes, who are pervasive in the coffee trade...