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...first time since the downturn began, to contemplate what would happen if one more leg is kicked off the stool. The stock market responded with a shudder yesterday but at least did not collapse in response to the weekend media blitz about the Swine Flu outbreak. The reaction of the world's markets is likely to be close to panic if this disease becomes widespread and lethal. (See pictures of the swine flu outbreak in Mexico...
...reaction was simply fabulous,” he said. “When you present an idea, people usually come to you with problems and objections. But when we showed them this test, everyone said, “this makes sense”. They were floored by its logical simplicity...
...best antidote to the rise of viral activity during class time would be to pull the plug on wireless internet in classes in which it is not academically necessary. This would inevitably upset many students. However, such a reaction would only prove the degree to which zoning out in class thanks to technology is ingrained in the way we spend our class time. Such paternalism may not be the answer, but certainly something has to change. After all, the lecture hall is beginning to resemble Lamont Café, without the lattes. Anita J Joseph ’12, a Crimson...
...escorts. An international moratorium on ransom payments. Some urge arming crews, although assuming that shippers can outgun young men fitted out with the best the Somali black market has to offer is a risky bet. The best solution is likely to be military, based on inspections, exclusion zones, rapid reaction and deadly force. That is how our partners are beginning to view it. French commandos retook a yacht on April 10, killing two pirates. (One passenger was killed.) Last November, the Indian navy sank a pirate "mother ship" off Yemen. Favoring multilateralism over unilateralism often means favoring talk over action...
...maximizing his grade point average, he settles on Japan Pop: From Basho to Banana as his first step toward the laudable goal of a liberal education. Over the next four years, he will also sign up for The World in 1776, The Images of Alexander the Great, Revolution and Reaction: The Rise and Fall of the Russian Avant-Garde, Confucian Humanism: Self-Cultivation and Moral Community, and Dinosaurs and Their Relatives. These courses, claim the venerable Harvard College administrators, will liberalize an otherwise parochial course load...