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...average, Harvard undergraduates rate their experiences with Harvard’s mental health resources positively (close to 4 on a 5 point scale). But ask a student about his sense of student satisfaction with Harvard’s mental health resources, and this impression quickly disappears. Everyone knows that most students have bad encounters with Harvard’s mental health resources. Because of this negative reputation, Harvard’s mental health resources—rated highly by those who use them—are underutilized to the detriment of many Harvard undergraduates in need...
...brazen step certain to aggravate the nuclear crisis between Iran and the West, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced Monday his country was now capable of industrial scale uranium enrichment. The declaration carried the hallmarks of the president's theatrical, defiant speeches, styled to show off Iran's tough posture and encourage a sense of nationalist pride among ordinary Iranians. "With great pride, I declare that as of today our country has joined the nuclear club of nations," Ahmadinejad said, speaking before a great billboard of the Iranian flag encircled by the symbol for nuclear energy. The next day Iranian newspapers...
...only surprise about Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's announcement Monday that Iran has moved to "industrial-scale" uranium enrichment is the timing. Back in January, Iranian officials informed the International Atomic Energy Agency that it was installing 3,000 centrifuges at its underground enrichment facility at Natanz, and would soon begin feeding uranium gas into them. Ahmadinejad had been expected to boast of this expansion from a 328-centrifuge pilot operation last Feb. 11, as Iran celebrated the 28th anniversary of its revolution...
...inspectors to know for sure, but it sounds to me as though Iran has not yet gotten in its enrichment program as far as it has been proclaiming. Yes, they are making progress, and yes, it is a new stage to be enriching uranium in the underground production-scale facility. But to call it industrial-scale enrichment is a boast...
...over 100 brands of pet food. ChemNutra Inc., based in Las Vegas, bought 873 tons of gluten from the Chinese company, farmed it out to three pet food makers and one distributor that services the industry. A highly centralized process may be cheap, but "at that size and scale if something goes wrong it goes wrong big time," says Nestle...