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...part, of course, the BJP simply got lucky, assuming power in 1998, just as the nation's IT industry began to blossom. And today's thundering economy?which grew by 10.4% in the last quarter?may owe more to last year's bounteous monsoon than to enlightened business reform. But the BJP has had the wit to adapt its message of strident Hindu nationalism to a more mature one of prosperous peace with Pakistan and loud pride in India's growing economic heft...
...pull back from the brink," says Frank Hawkins, technical director of the Madagascar Center for Biodiversity Conservation, a unit of the U.S. environmental NGO Conservation International. He and his wife, Joanna Durbin, who heads the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust on the island, are heartened by the 2002 election of reform-minded President Marc Ravalomanana, who has pledged to expand his country's network of protected conservation areas from 1.7 million hectares to 6 million hectares over the next five years. The RBG is mapping the island's flora to help the government identify the best sites for 11 new reserves...
...hand, our mission is not to reform the world, but to figure out the best way to educate our students,” Kirby says...
...Many schools find it very difficult to talk about a curriculum as a whole. I think most curriculum reform nowadays is done on a small group level or a department level,” Boyer says...
Steven J. Gortler, Goldman Professor of Computer Science and director of undergraduate studies in computer science, says he does not believe the changes implemented by the curricular reform will be a drastic departure from Harvard’s current system of undergraduate education...