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...direct bearing upon neglected diseases endemic to the developing world. For example, as a result of TDAF funding, a faculty member at the Harvard School of Public Health has been able to advance his efforts to develop new drugs against tuberculosis, a neglected disease that remains a major threat to public health...
...This year, I’m trying to really go after pitches when I feel I can drive the ball.” Combine this new aggressiveness with more at-bats and a countless number of hours spent in the batting cages, and you get a whole new threat in the middle of the Crimson lineup...
This new security threat comes as the U.S. military prepares to withdraw its forces from Iraq's cities by June, ahead of a complete withdrawal by the end of 2011. But in many ways, U.S. troop numbers and locations are secondary factors. This is an Iraqi problem, one that stems from festering political rivalries and suspicions among the country's competing centers of power...
...regulations as time-consuming and expensive distractions from a funds’ ultimate goal: making money. These objections to oversight, however, ignore the potential damage that unregulated investing and high-risk betting can wreak. Unchecked hedge funds, unregulated derivatives traders, exotic trades, and obscure credit-default swaps all pose threats to the wider stability of the U.S. economy. Additionally, the government’s current inability to safely unwind financial institutions that pose systemic risk presents a gaping hole in federal resolution authority. Unfortunately, behaviors at hedge funds and on trading floors that pose substantial risk to all Americans have...
...attack on the police cadets underscores the growing threat that Islamist militancy poses to Pakistan on a widening geographic scale. It comes just days after a suicide bomber attacked a mosque on the edge of Pakistan's tribal areas, killing more than 70 in one of the deadliest attacks the country has seen in recent months. The city of Lahore was long considered immune to terrorism strikes, but it suffered its first suicide bombing in January 2008. With the second full-frontal attack in less than a month, there are fears that the militants are training their sights on Pakistan...