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Facing the second highest HIV infection rate in the world, the Botswanan government has taken steps in recent years to increase access to antiretroviral drugs...
Finally, and perhaps most importantly, Congress needs to take a hard look at how these banks are structured and the purpose they serve in today’s economy. As Roger Lowenstein wrote in a recent article, banks today make an overwhelming percentage of their profits from trading, in effect making them giant hedge funds-in-disguise that pose a stability risk to the market while also performing some banking operations. The Volcker rule, which would ban banks from engaging in proprietary trading, would change technical classifications that are easy to work around, as investment banks could shift risks...
Harvard is the most recent of many prominent institutions to begin this program. Yale, Stanford, Brown, MIT, and Oxford are some of the more than six hundred universities worldwide that post educational materials on iTunes...
...recent announcement that Kid Cudi will perform at this year’s Yardfest was music to many students’ ears. We too are extremely excited for Yardfest—a time for all Harvard students to gather together for an afternoon of tire swings, music, food, and fun. In fact, the College should channel more attention and resources toward creating other large-scale, inclusive social events that are similar to Yardfest...
...takeoff and landing to please the Marines and their smaller ships, while more conventional versions are slated to satisfy the demands of the Air Force and Navy. All of a sudden, however, the F-35 is in big trouble. On Wednesday, Defense Secretary Robert Gates told Congress that its recent cost and schedule snafus were "unacceptable." And while the Pentagon is not about to kill the program, the rush to push the plane down the assembly line and into the skies highlights the nation's continuing inability to pit its limited resources against real threats...