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...type of HIV.” On a 2004 summer trip to India, Pasricha worked with her sister Sarina, who had graduated from the College that year, to develop the Global Youth Health, Education, and Leadership Program, or HELP. With funding from Tobacco-Free Kids, a non-profit organization, Pasricha said that she created the program to improve Indian female education and youth health awareness about the perils of smoking. “It was fun working together during our vacations and our time together at Harvard to brainstorm and develop a vision and a strategy to impact young people...
...loving U.S. At the same time, most of the world's major automakers expect to produce low-cost subcompact cars for growing middle classes in China, India and other developing countries. Yet the market for kei is likely to remain largely restricted to Japan. That's partly because profit margins are too low to justify international sales. Daihatsu sells some of its minis in Southeast Asia and is working on a deal in China. But Suzuki-Japan's top minimaker until Daihatsu passed it last year-is reducing mini production in favor of subcompacts and compacts. "Minicar engines made...
...years to take a slimmed-down, more competitive Chrysler public on the stock exchange or sell it to another automaker. More than any other single factor, it will be Cerberus' efforts to cut health-care spending on retirees that will determine whether it can do so at a big profit...
...least 25% a year through 2010, according to the Sydney-based Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation (CAPA), an industry consultancy. Yet carriers such as low-cost upstarts Air Deccan, IndiGo, GoAir and SpiceJet have added so many flights--even though there's no place to land them--that profit-destroying fare wars have broken out. Air Deccan, for example, advertises a fare of just $6.60 plus taxes for a 45-min. flight from New Delhi to Jaipur. Add in higher fuel prices, and you've got a recipe for red ink. Indian airlines lost some $500 million last year, after...
Aside from the guilty-until-proved-innocent argument, many students are apoplectic that a for-profit entity--which charges 87 per student per year for plagiarism detection--is making money off their homework. As soon as a paper is vetted for cut- and-paste plagiarism, it joins a database against which every new submission will be compared. Thus, argues a recent Op-Ed in the Texas A&M newspaper, the company should have to pay to use these works, "without which their service would be crippled." Concerns about intellectual-property rights as well as cost led the University of Kansas...