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...splinter the unity of the Harvard community. Similar to the growing partisanship in Washington, it is apparent from the current ideological warfare among students that Harvard seems to be following suit. But in celebration of Veteran’s Day, which coincides with the recent U.S. troop death toll in Iraq reaching 2,000, it is important that the Harvard community honor the dedication and sacrifice of our countrymen and women in uniform. In hopes of encouraging campus wide appreciation and commemoration of the sacrifices of the U.S. troops, the Harvard College Democrats and Harvard Republican Club (HRC) are joining...
...Every spring the Mississippi River overflows its banks, more or less gently. This year the floods were devastating -- not just because of heavy rains but also because levees have constricted the river. Without its historic escape valves, the river burst some levees and roared over levee-less stretches. The toll: 20 million acres waterlogged, 50 lives lost and $12 billion in damage...
...poverty in Nepal and the toll it exacts on its smallest citizens are staggering. Twenty years ago, the infant-mortality rate was 133 for every 1,000 births, most of the babies claimed by pneumonia and diarrhea. By the 1980s, it was clear that a lack of vitamin A in the Nepalese diet was a factor in the high rates of infant mortality and in a form of blindness. All it would take to reduce both would be a low-cost vitamin-A capsule taken as infrequently as twice a year...
...other living expenses, Dizik has continued to work since she turned 65. For 10 years, she was with Broward County Meals on Wheels, which provides meals to seniors, some younger than she is. But three years ago, when she turned 75, driving 100 miles a day began exacting a toll...
...side, is hellish. The stench of death still hangs in a pestilential cloud over Muzaffarabad, the largest Kashmiri city on the Pakistani side. Thousands died in the city, many of them in hospitals and schools destroyed by the 7.6 magnitude quake-on Wednesday, aid officials revised the final death toll upwards in Pakistan from 54,000 to nearly 80,000. Another 1,400 were killed on the Indian side...