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...wake of the great success of the Green Revolution of the 1950s and '60s, which vastly increased global crop yields through intensive fertilizer use and irrigation. Bananas are one of the most important cash crops in the world, for example, yet Fowler notes that there are just six banana breeders on the planet...
Harvard has inked a custom loan arrangement with financial services giant JPMorgan Chase designed to make it easier for international graduate students to fund their education, University officials announced Friday. The recently signed deal with JPMorgan, which had been in the works for over six months to replace a previous arrangement with Citibank, will provide eligible international students with loans up to the total cost of attendance at Harvard’s graduate schools. The announcement did not contain further details for the program, and both JPMorgan and a number of Harvard financial aid officers declined to comment Friday afternoon...
...process, she has poached more tenured faculty—including Cass R. Sunstein ’75, the most cited legal scholar in the country—from other institutions during her five-year deanship than during the previous 20 years combined.Other programs that Kagan introduced testify to the six years she spent soaking up a more collegial atmosphere as a University of Chicago professor, her first academic appointment. In an effort to improve the student experience—academic, residential, and social—she brought both the clinical writing program and that school’s then Dean...
...refugees of Lebanon have always been more militant than their brethren inside the Palestinian territories. Most are descendants of those who fled Israeli forces in Galilee during the war of 1948; since then they have been prevented by Israel from returning to their homes. Having lived for six decades without citizenship or basic civil rights in the squalor and despair of refugee camps in a country that bars refugees from owning property and from entering some 70 professions, they have long provided a fertile recruiting environment for militant groups...
...least 20 injured people were admitted to Dhaka Medical College and other hospitals in the capital. On Thursday, police retrieved the bullet-ridden bodies of at least six BDR officers from a sewer on the outskirts of Dhaka that connects the BDR headquarters to a nearby river. It is believed that the mutineers shot the officers dead and later threw the bodies into the tunnel...