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...basketball family.”If his 2010 recruiting class holds together, Wade, Smart’s first hire at VCU, will be assured a legacy at Harvard for at least the next four years.“I’m just thankful that I was able to spend two years at such a great institution and meet so many great people,” Wade said. “It was just a tremendous experience for me, and I really appreciate Harvard taking a chance on me and giving me the opportunity...
...alive today.Walking down 5th Avenue in New York City, Princeton’s Peter Singer asks, “Can we make our academic studies more relevant to our questions today?” as he applies ethical theory to the affluence around him. His idea that what we spend money on affects what we don’t spend money on—saving lives, for example—relates closely to Ronell’s considerations of morals in a potentially meaningless existence and cultural theorist Kwame Anthony Appiah’s thoughts on what it means...
...your experiments.”After completing her senior thesis, Murray was accepted to several graduate schools, but stayed at MIT, because all the others seemed “sleepy.”She continued working with Greytak on a surface physics experiment that required her to spend hours welding in the machine shop building a vacuum system.When she received an IBM Fellowship midway through her thesis work, she says she walked into Greytak’s office to ask if she should take the unorthodox step of interrupting her academic career for an internship in industry...
...World Bank announced this week that while China's growing economy had lifted a half billion people out of poverty from 1981 to 2004, medical costs remained one of the top financial threats to low-income rural residents. With that burden in mind, Beijing has said it will spend $125 billion over the next three years building thousands of clinics and hospitals and expanding basic health care coverage to 90% of the population. "This commitment to improve equitable access to essential health care for all in China is quite important," says Sarah Barber, a China-based World Health Organization expert...
...economic crisis has increased the need for reforms. The lack of an adequate safety net forces Chinese to bank huge sums to cover treatment costs. By building a sounder health care system - with more hospitals and clinics and broader medical coverage - Beijing hopes it can convince consumers to spend more of their savings and boost economic growth...