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...surely drag Ethiopia and Eritrea into a proxy--if not outright--war. The Islamists' stated aim to unite all of Somalia is believed to include the secular breakaway territories of Puntland and Somaliland, as well as portions of Kenya and Ethiopia. Once fighting has begun, there's little to prevent Somalia from becoming a conflict that could engulf the Horn of Africa, cause horrific loss of life and create the continent's next major humanitarian crisis...
...research, this approach in no way excludes a commitment to reduce our own carbon footprint. Should we cut funding for the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative, to research instead how to end poverty where it starts? Should Harvard cut University Health Services funds and instead only research how to prevent us from getting sick in the first place? Research and reductions should go hand in hand: As Harvard develops innovative ways to reduce its footprint, these methods will serve as models for institutions at all levels to follow. Furthermore, reduction would give more credibility to concurrent research—we can?...
...creating divisional deans to oversee tenure offers for related groups of departments. This is a step in the right direction, but Harvard must redouble its efforts to compensate for structural problems that repel interdisciplinary scholars. Harvard’s stubbornly rigid system of departments and schools should not prevent the University from conducting research in important interdisciplinary areas. An institution of Harvard’s size and reputation cannot afford to have such large gaps of expertise; its scholarship (and the tangible worldly benefits that come from it) will suffer...
...four that Gardasil fends off are responsible for 70 percent of cervical cancer cases and 90 percent of genital warts infections. According to the website of Merck & Co., Inc.—Gardasil’s manufacturer—testing found the vaccine to be 100 percent effective in preventing high-grade cervical pre-cancers and non-invasive cervical cancers associated with HPV type 16 and 18 infections. But the cost of the injection series, each priced at $154 by UHS and not covered by Harvard’s student health insurance plan, may prove prohibitive for some...
...While the U.S. remains the single largest power center in Iraq, that power is not sufficient to impose Washington's will. There are too many other actors in the field who have enough influence of their own, or in combination, to prevent the U.S. from prevailing. Those power centers range from the Sunni insurgency and the Shi'ite militias to the Iraqi government and Iraq's neighbors, first and foremost Iran...