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...poultry, Hong Kong is suffering its third lethal outbreak of bird flu in nearly five years. Flu experts can't explain why. But a lack of coordinated regulations, record keeping and research between Hong Kong and southern China is one reason for their inability to get to the root of the problem. And vested economic interests are keeping researchers from taking even the first steps toward finding a solution...
...adding one grade to the top of the spectrum will hardly stem the tide of grade inflation that has swept Harvard for the last century. Adding an A-plus would address a symptom of grade inflation but would do nothing to address the problem’s root causes. Grades have steadily increased for years—what would prevent them from continuing to creep upwards, until 50 percent of grades given out are either As or A-pluses...
...Divinity School and at the Law School and at the Kennedy School. That’s not a great start. And the other thing that concerns me as a humanist is the way Summers seems to be targeting just those in the humanities. Could that actually be at the root of this? Part of the reason why he has come in so anti-Rudenstine is the fact that he doesn’t particularly have any warm embrace for the humanities. And whether or not that means that the humanities are being cursed and that they are moving...
These two impetuses come from the same root--call it Utah's China problem. With the highest birthrate in the country, the state needs to fuel above-average economic growth just to accommodate its growing population. "It is a young state with a workforce growing at twice the national average," says Leavitt. "We need to make jobs for our kids and grandkids. It is clear we will have to attract many new faces to Utah to do that." The old mainstays of Utah's economy--agriculture, mining and military bases--are in decline, so the state has aggressively shifted...
...with the spat with West, several supporters said that the columnists in question jumped to conclusions. Summers maintained that the uproar was at its root a miscommunication. But, conservatives emphasized the dispute’s political nature—citing a supposed attack on affirmative action and challenge to an academically questionable department...