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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...symposium entitled, "The World Food System and Global Agribusiness: The Role of Public and Private Policymakers," four experts warned that the world's nations may not be able to meet the growing population's demand for food...

Author: By Evan J. Mandery, | Title: Famine, Pestilence, Plague and War: Malthus is on His Way | 9/6/1986 | See Source »

Discovering new treatment methods will not be enough to control disease in developing countries, three Harvard School of Public Health researchers said yesterday at a symposium entitled "Saving Lives in the World's Poorest Countries...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: New Technology Insufficient to Solve Third World Health Issues | 9/6/1986 | See Source »

High costs frequently reduce the effectiveness of new treatments. "Many countries simply do not have the resources [to pay for expensive new treatments,]" said the symposium's moderator Richard A. Cash, a fellow at the Harvard Institute for International Development. "Only 20 to 25 percent of the at-risk population are currently immunized [against diseases common in developing countries...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: New Technology Insufficient to Solve Third World Health Issues | 9/6/1986 | See Source »

...Fred Jewett '57, dean of the College, moderated the symposium, titled "Harvard College, Change and Continuity: 1936-1986." Jewett asked the panelists whether today's Harvard is "better or different" than the Harvard of yesteryear...

Author: By Jennifer L. Mnookin, | Title: Overworked and Misdirected | 9/6/1986 | See Source »

John Rawls, Conant University Professor, whose opus "A Theory of Justice" has garnered widespread praise, Robert Nozick, Porter Professor of Philosophy, and Thomas M. Scanlon, professor of philosophy, lightly sparred on the role of government in a symposium titled "The Individual Good and Political Philosophy...

Author: By Peter C. Krause, | Title: Phew! That Was Good | 9/6/1986 | See Source »

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