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...similar things or even larger [restrictions] in August 2008.” Chris Nielsen, the executive director of the China Project at Harvard, said that Chinese officials consider the Beijing Olympics to be a “showcase” of the country’s rapid development, and that Chinese officials do not want air pollution to detract from the event. The researchers of the study—which is being published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters—are affiliated with the China Project, which is part of the Harvard University Center for the Environment. K. Folkert...
...that the scheme, which restricts couples to one child and imposes fines and other sanctions on violators, has largely outlived its usefulness. First implemented in 1978, the one-child policy has been so successful in checking China's population growth that the country now confronts the prospect of the rapid aging of its total population in the next two decades. The reaction of many Chinese demographers, not surprisingly, has been to call for the abolition of the one-child policy, which they say has served its purpose. Other critics point out that India has achieved broadly similar declines in fertility...
...quick pass from Cohen to make the score 8-3 with 11:51 remaining in the game. A faceoff win by Flood quickly led to freshman attackman Jason Duboe netting his 11th goal of the season to trim the deficit to four.Four minutes later, the Crimson struck again in rapid succession. After Cohen netted his second goal of the day with 6:43 remaining, Flood won the faceoff, and a minute later Calvert put in his second of the day.Suddenly, Harvard was down just three. “The thing that was creating goals for us was transition...
...frontotemporal dementia, a degenerative disease caused by the rapid deterioration of the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain, which Mackey injured on a goal post in his football days...
...these resolutions arrive surprisingly late, as the league has already begun to take responsibility for the declining health of its players. When Mackey’s wife, Sylvia, wrote last May to then-NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue about the financial burden that can result from the rapid decline of retired players’ health, the league and the NFL Players Association responded by creating the “Number 88 Plan.” Named after John Mackey’s jersey number, the plan will pay up to $88,000 for each former player’s treatment...