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...demonstrated, the main problem is not raising enough money; rather, it is making sure that donated goods arrive in an efficient manner. Harvard should facilitate finding solutions to fundamental problems like this, as well as aiding with temporary relief efforts. To do this, the administration should create a prize program named HarvardforHumanity. Modeled after the Harvard Catalyst and InnoCentive Prize for Innovation, HarvardforHumanity would be a prize competition, soliciting both answers and questions to different challenges with a focus on seeking solutions to humanitarian problems throughout the world...
...prize competition, HarvardforHumanity could choose a series of developmental challenges to tackle and award start-up capital for winning teams to bring their ideas to fruition. With the disaster in Haiti drawing much of the world’s attention, the inaugural edition might solicit ideas to maximize the efficiency of airplanes landing and taking off from Haiti’s lone airstrip. Challenges would be specific, yet varied, such as how to maximize the efficiency of doctors arriving and departing from Port-Au-Prince or create a more portable and cost-effective way to purify drinking water...
Deborah Blum knows so much about poison that even her husband sometimes shies away from her. In her new book, The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York, the Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer profiles the two men, New York City chief medical examiner Charles Norris and toxicologist Alexander Gettler, who pioneered forensic medicine in the U.S. between 1915 and 1936. Blum talks to TIME about how the U.S. government took to poisoning its own citizens during Prohibition and why poisoners are the most frightening murderers...
Former Vice President Laura Chinchilla won a Feb. 7 vote to become the first woman elected to lead Costa Rica. A protégé of the outgoing President, Nobel Peace Prize winner Oscar Arias, Chinchilla is expected to continue Arias' economic policies and his efforts as peace broker in the region. A social conservative, Chinchilla opposes gay marriage and abortion and has promised to combat the country's increasing crime rate...
...Harvard, Vaillancourt was honored with the Radcliffe Prize for the top female athlete at the Harvard Varsity Club’s Senior Letterwinners Dinner...