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...Cambridge does fantastic stuff, and the continuing commitment to environmental issues is very important,” said Jackson S. Salovaara ’11, another member of the EAC, “The municipal level’s actions...[show] what should be done at the state and national levels...
Organizers this year are working under the shadow of what one student called the most “unsuccessful successful show ever” that saw thousands of students turn out for a highly anticipated show that ended in a nearly collapsed stage and one very pissed DJ Girl Talk...
...Where Britain leads, at least on television, others follow. In recent years, programs as diverse as The Office and Strictly Come Dancing have made comfortable transitions across the Atlantic, and reality TV show formats have found multiple berths abroad. If viewers succumb to the charms of six disabled characters behaving badly, the rest of the world may soon be scrambling to recondition Cast Offs...
That grade was based on figures from 2007, which show that 12.7% of U.S. births were preterm. Those figures, which have remained constant in recent years, also earned the U.S. a D last year, when the March of Dimes began compiling its report card. The objective, set by federal health experts in the Healthy People 2010 program, is a preterm birth rate of 7.6%. Worldwide, the preterm birth rate is estimated at 9.6%, accounting for 12.9 million babies per year. "Preterm birth remains a very intractable problem," says Dr. Jennifer Howse, president of the March of Dimes Foundation. "It does...
...were killed in July, in the worst ethnic violence in decades. That same month, a Nigerian man was critically injured trying to escape one of many visa checks in Guangzhou's sizable African neighborhood. Also this year, a half-African-American, half-Chinese contestant on a Chinese reality-TV show and a half-South African, half-Chinese athlete on China's national volleyball team became the subjects of a flurry of racist comments in China's blogosphere. But Ndesandjo is optimistic about ethnic-minority life in China, saying, "If you make an attempt to understand where these attitudes come from...