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...Another certainty is that for a nation with a poor record of public healthcare, containing the virus will be a steep challenge. India's Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss has quarantined the area in the district of Nandurbar and dispatched medical teams to cull up to half a million chickens from around 16 farms. Other flocks on nearby farms are being vaccinated. Ramadoss has also sent a million doses of H5N1 bird vaccine to Nandurbar. But despite his assurances that "people need no panic, the situation is under control," Indian newspapers on Monday published pictures showing some farmers participating...
...hour extensions to the extra meals that would be eaten.The only way to cover such costs without removing funding from another area of the College would be to increase the board cost for undergraduates.“College is already so expensive—nobody wants to pay a steep increase in the term bill over one year,” said Aaron D. Chadbourne ’06, a former member of the HUDS Student Advisory Committee.Currently, 46 percent of the money from student meal plans goes to wages and benefit costs and 30 percent is spent on food...
...from McCrone. But that was the only consistent performance from the Crimson all night. The team vowed to come out strong in the first game yet was at a loss for how to take control. After two Springfield blocks, Harvard fell into a 16-8 hole that proved too steep to overcome. Despite matching the Pride to close out the game, the early deficit allowed Springfield to pull away with a 30-22 victory. “We talked about it in pregame today, about us coming out in game one and focusing on game one, and we did everything...
...advantage of the arena’s acoustics. Contrasted against Lavietes Pavilion, which features an extremely high ceiling and expansive space behind the backboards and on the sidelines, the Lee Amphitheater is an older and more traditional gym, with a claustrophobic, sound-amplifying atmosphere enhanced by the proximity and steep angle of the wooden bleachers, which easily transform into potent noisemakers. Standing throughout the whole game, the Yale students directed most of their animosity towards freshman guard Drew Housman. Housman received a harsh initiation to the Harvard-Yale rivalry, as Bulldogs fans chanted the guard’s name...
...Perhaps this is the dawn of a lengthy Harper era, but he faces a steep learning curve. Harper, who has never run a government agency, was in back-to-back meetings last week learning the ins and outs of managing a C$230 billion federal budget and the complex government machinery that goes with it. Characteristically, he reached out to the same senior coterie of professional Tory advisers that helped smooth out the kinks in his campaign. The five-person transition team, which has met every day in the fourth-floor office of the Langevin Block, where Canada's Prime...