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...worse, this paranoid box-ticking is an affront to the fact that student groups augment, not corrupt, the Harvard name. Legally the name Harvard belongs to the President and Fellows. But without the faculty, students, and sub-agencies of the College cooperating in the Harvard project, it is hard to imagine that the name would be worth very much at all. We students are among the people who vest value in the Harvard name in the first place. It is an insult to assert that we have no right to its use, and that the very name...
...Africa. The IPCC's most recent report on Africa predicted a minimum 2.5 degree centigrade increase in the continent's temperature by 2030. Growing seasons will be cut short and stretches of land made unsuitable for agriculture, with yields declining by as much as 50% in some countries. In sub-Saharan Africa, between 25% and 40% of animals in national parks may become endangered. Africa's major bodies of water, including the Nile, will suffer excessive flooding caused by rising sea levels...
...ARVs and counseling across Botswana, and four more mobile clinics to reach remote areas. More than 7,000 health workers have been trained in treating HIV/AIDS. Of the estimated 110,000 people who need treatment in Botswana, 82,000 receive it - a proportion higher than any other country in sub-Saharan Africa except Rwanda. Mother-to - fetus transmission of HIV/AIDS has dropped from 2 in 5 to 1 in 16. Transmission rates among young people have also dropped 20%. And the overall HIV/AIDS infection rate has declined: among 15- to 49-year-olds, it fell from 37.4% to 32.4% between...
...scourge is not immediately obvious. For most undergraduates at the College, the gravity of the HIV/AIDS pandemic is not in question; instead, we wonder if it is possible to make a meaningful contribution as students. After all, most of the 40 million infected reside not in Cambridge, but in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean. To compound the feeling of helplessness, we see ourselves as only undergraduates, not yet equipped with the tools of physicians or policymakers...
Rancher Dan Evans (Christian Bale) may live in 19th century Arizona, but he's leading a 20th century - or sub-prime - sort of life. He's behind on his mortgage payments to the big landowner, who wants the property back in order to sell it on the Internet - oops, sorry, to the railroad. Dan's cattle herd is also dwindling, one of his kids is sick and the other thinks he's a coward. Even his patient wife is beginning to eye him dubiously. You really don't want to walk in Dan's shoes...