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...said he was concerned that policy-makers not overlook the interests of the 400 million people in India who are in transition between the lower and middle classes. This segment of the population is potentially the most volatile, according...
McArthur has also taken great strides inpromoting student diversity. During McArthur'stenure, the percentage of women students in theMBA program rose from 23 to 29 percent. Theminority segment increased from 7 to 18 percent,and the number of international students increasedfrom 18 to 25 percent...
This doesn't strike me as an issue over which Harvard professors should stumble. The Historical Studies segment of the core is currently divided into an A category, which focuses on "major issues of the contemporary world," and a B category, which presents "the documented details of some transforming event or group of events," according to the Courses of Instruction. Granted, 10a and 10b don't fit neatly into either category, but it wouldn't upset any great cosmic order to add these two classes to the A category, the broader of the two. It is the reluctance...
Whereas few of us can expect to be longevity superstars, demographic trends show that more and more of us will at least make it into the big league. The "oldest old"-those 85 and older-make up the fastest-growing segment of the population in the U.S. and other prosperous nations. Between 1960 and 1990, while the overall U.S. population grew 39%, the ranks of those 85 and older jumped 232%. The U.S. Census Bureau projects that by the year 2040, there will be 1.3 million Americans 100 years or older; some demographers put the figure at 4 million...
...against Dr. Henry W. Foster Jr.'s expected nomination for the office of Surgeon General. Dr. Foster has founded an extremely successful program for teenagers called "I Have a Future." This program works to build teenagers' self-esteem while preaching to them the benefits of abstinence. Yet a large segment of the anti-choice movement was really serious about stopping unwanted pregnancies, one would expect them to loudly applaud the nomination of Dr. Foster...