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...take any job in the short run just to have money, or do you have to be discerning about it because of your résumé? It depends upon how badly you need money. Don't be precipitous if you don't have to be. If you have to get new work right away, try to make it consulting work that's at your level. A great place for consulting work is the place that just laid you off. They need to get that work done; they just needed to trim the overhead. You can conceivably continue working...
...past nine years, the drug company Novartis has been selling Coartem, one of the most effective antimalarials on the market, to public-health officials in the developing world at a loss totaling more than $253 million - not counting the millions spent on R&D. That's added up, the firm reports, to more than 550,000 lives saved. In late January, the company unveiled the first pediatric dose of Coartem - less bitter and easier to swallow than the adult version - which is expected to help in the battle against a disease that kills more than 700,000 children under...
...Seventy-eight percent of Harvard applicants this year applied for financial aid—a seven percent increase from last year. Almost 60 percent of the student population currently receives some need-based aid, according to William R. Fitzsimmons, who is Dean of Admissions and Financial...
...timing of the launch and the Pudding’s Woman of the Year Parade. According to Lachter, Virgin America approached the Pudding about being in the Woman of the Year Parade, which began a larger partnership between the two groups. Hasty Pudding’s members Christopher R. Schleicher ‘09 and David J. Smolinsky ‘11 were also present for the event, according to Pudding spokeswoman Talisa B. Friedman ’10. “We were absolutely thrilled to have Hasty Pudding’s participation in our press conference upon...
...gentrification has intensified. In the past two months alone, 29 cars - mostly luxury brands like Mercedes, BMW and Porsche - have been set ablaze in Berlin (police believe left-wing extremists are to blame). In a letter published online in January, a leftist radical group called BMW (Bewegung für militanten Widerstand, or Movement for Militant Resistance) admitted to having set eight cars on fire, as a protest, the statement said, against the restructuring of formerly low-income neighborhoods, which has led to higher rents and forced out poorer residents...