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...begin in Harran, Turkey—which many Biblical scholars believe to be the location where Abraham first heard the call to “go forth from your country,” as the Book of Genesis recounts—and would end 1,100 kilometers to the southeast, at Abraham’s tomb in the West Bank city of Hebron. Highlights include important religious sites such as the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, and the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem. Passing through Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Israel, and the Palestinian...
...Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud’s 2005 gift will come in installments, the first of which has already arrived and is dedicated to graduate fellowships. Subsequent installments will pay for the creation of four new professorships—in Islamic Science, Central Asian Studies, South or Southeast Asian Studies, and Contemporary Islamic Science and Thought—as well as for acquisitions by the Harvard Library. Dean of the Divinity School William A. Graham wrote in an e-mail that three of the new professorships will ideally be filled by “Islamic specialists...
...names of groups like AAA. When people use the word Asian, much of the time they mean East Asian, and usually specifically Chinese. East Asians, meaning those with Chinese, North and South Korean, Japanese, or Taiwanese ancestry, make up a majority of the Asians at Harvard. Often, Southeast Asians—the region variably composed of India, Vietnam, Thailand, and several other countries—are lumped in with East Asians on ethnic surveys. In the smaller-scale world of college admissions, the Common Application, used by over 300 colleges, splits applicants of Asian heritage not into categories of East...
...such firms are wary of committing resources to markets that hold little promise of a return on their investment. And with most TB victims living in Africa and Southeast Asia, Edwards’ spray is far less lucrative than drugs that target ailments such as high cholesterol and heart disease that are common in industrialized nations...
Yunus successfully demonstrated how microcredit can be a means of alleviating poverty and empowering women. An impossible idea turned out to be a practical weapon in the fight against the extreme poverty of those in Southeast Asia and other Third World areas. Yunus' goal of reducing poverty by half by 2015, however, will require the sustained commitment and cooperation of development partners and the unequivocal support of local governments...