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...Biodiversity, Ecology and Global Change.” Daniel P. Schrag, the Center for the Environment’s director, said that Bank of America’s funding has been central to the expansion of the center’s activities. “Only about a quarter of our budget comes directly from the provost,” he said. “The lectures that Bank of America has sponsored have allowed Harvard to host speakers from all over the world.” In addition to the importance of a global perspective, Schrag also emphasized...
Despite the prevalence of psychiatric disorders among 18- to 24-year-olds, only one quarter of them receive treatment, and college students are less likely to seek medical help than those not attending college, the study found...
...Toyota, the industry behemoth, just recorded its seventh consecutive month of declining sales, and the company's second-quarter net profit plunged nearly 70%. Toyota has cut its earnings forecast for the fiscal year ending March 2009 to $6 billion, which is just one-third the profit it made the previous year. "You are looking at the deepest downturn that Japanese automakers have ever seen," says Chris Richter, senior research analyst at CLSA, a Hong Kong-based brokerage house. "They've faced downturns before, but not downturns in virtually every global market simultaneously. Even Honda Civics and Toyota Priuses aren...
...that left 32 dead, mental-health experts have been looking for answers. A new study by researchers from Columbia University, the National Institutes of Health and the New York State Psychiatric Institute provides some grim data: nearly half of college-age Americans have psychiatric problems, and fewer than one-quarter seek help...
...countries like Indonesia, the Philippines and Egypt. And that's the real impact of water scarcity--food scarcity. It takes 150 gal. of water to grow a pound of wheat, up to 650 gal. for a pound of rice and 3,000 gal. to raise the equivalent of a quarter-pound of beef...