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...Harvard-based organization seeking to develop ways to screen loan applicants in developing nations received a grant from the philanthropic arm of the search engine giant Google on Thursday...
Beginning this morning and ending Thursday, Jain and fellow participants will be encouraged to walk as much as possible—whether it’s just to class or recreationally. The house with the most distance logged—as measured by a pedometer—by its walkers at the end of the week will win a “green study break” this semester, furnished by the Food Literacy Project, and a massage...
...government of President Omar al-Bashir has been criticized for its methods and policies since the very start of the Darfur conflict, which has killed some 300,000 and displaced 2.5 million in five years. Along with domestic trials, which have achieved little, Bashir announced on Thursday a "people's initiative" to bring peace to Darfur, even though none of the rebel groups agreed to take part...
...returned undercover in 1950. Kundera, who had not spoken to the press for decades, broke that silence this week to deny the allegation, insisting he never even knew the spy, and that the alleged tip off "did not happen." The confusion over the charge deepened still further on Thursday, Oct. 16, when a new charge surfaced in the Czech media that the informant was not Kundera at all but a friend named Miroslav Dlask, now deceased. A Czech literary historian, Zdenek Pesat, 80, released a written statement claiming that Dlask told him he informed the police about the whereabouts...
...seems to be falling. Amid the carnage, though, there's at least one measure you can't keep down: fear. Wall Street's favorite measure of market volatility and investor jitters, the Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index - VIX for short - briefly topped 80 points for the first time Thursday, as U.S. stocks slipped on a pile of poor economic news. The VIX, dubbed the "fear gauge", eventually closed at a touch under 68, three times the average over its 18-year history. Prior to this past week, the index hadn't even scaled the 50 mark...