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Harvard's newest dean must jump into the University-wide academic planning process, now nearly a year old. He must cope with the financial pressures of one of Harvard's poorer schools. And he must take the reins of a faculty used to some degree of autonomy...
...world's poorer countries, the fight against infectious disease is already a disaster. Malaria, tuberculosis, cholera and dysentery may claim more than 10 million lives each year. While inadequate medical care and sanitation are mainly responsible for the death toll, increasing microbial resistance to drugs is making a bad situation worse. The antimalarial drug chloroquine is no longer broadly effective, and even the newest substitute, mefloquine, is encountering resistance from some strains of the malarial parasite...
There is no vaccine, no cure and not even an indisputably effective treatment. While AIDS education has slowed the epidemic in developed countries, the disease continues to spread rapidly in many poorer nations. The World Health Organization says at least 30 million people around the world could be infected with the AIDS virus by the year 2000. Other experts think the number could reach 110 million...
...people get poorer as capitalism takes hold...
...clear message has come out of this meeting, it is that the 178 nations represented will all have to change if the agreements are to have any teeth. Statements from the poorer nations tended to place all blame for the earth's woes on the rich nations and assert that these polluters should pay the developing world to protect its ecosystems. Speth called this attitude a "prescription for long-term disaster since it will lead people to wait for money before they take actions that are in their own interest." Moreover, because of the billions of dollars in development assistance...