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Curricular Review: 1. Harvard College’s academe-leading attempt to overhaul undergraduate education. 2. No discernable progress is being made on this...
...Times Picayune that suicides had gone up from 8 to 26 per 100,000 people. "On a per capita basis, we've seen an increase in suicides, depression, substance abuse, and domestic violence. If you've driven the city, you see why. We've not made a lot of progress," says cardiologist Pat Breaux, past head of the Orleans Parish Medical Society. He is part of a 40-member Louisiana Health Care Redesign Collaborative making recommendations this fall on changes in the city's health care system to Michael Leavitt, Secretary of Health and Human Services...
...vote in September. Can the accumulation of worrying signs be reversed? During a visit to Afghanistan in July, Homburger was surprised by the optimism expressed by both Afghans and foreign workers despite the Taliban's attacks. "The population is aware they are being helped. They do see progress," she says. However, the awful logic of almost-failed states is hard to escape: without security, development is impossible, and without development, security is impossible. Only outside help can break that dynamic. Afghanistan is about to discover whether it may need a little more from its NATO friends than they're prepared...
Similarly, and significantly, the government has met the challenge. The Ministry of Health spent most of 2004 creating a patient registry that allows health officials to monitor progress in care and treatment across the island. "We wanted to make sure we understood if the project was working or not," says Adel Chaouch, Marathon's director of corporate social responsibility...
Franzen is also working on a new novel. It's poor form to grill a writer about a work in progress, but I do it anyway, and he throws me a few cryptic crumbs. "The deep ecologists like to say that nature bats last," he says. "Whenever anyone is trying to say, mankind is smarter than nature ... we are of nature. And nature does therefore always bat last." So something political? "Certainly that's another thing I've been doing over the past five years. Being upset over the state of American politics...