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...sector after graduating in 2008, 2 percent took jobs in government and 1 percent joined the military. In 2008, the CIA hosted five recruitment events at Harvard, including career fairs, conferences and job fairs. Only six events were held for the entire Boston area in the same year. In total, 1,000 CIA recruiting events were held across the country last year. Deb Carroll, assistant director of the Office of Career Services for employer relations, said that “the number of students who attend these events has been significant.” She added that...
...poverty line if the financial crisis continues and remittances dip, according to the World Bank. In the Philippines alone, up to five million people are sustained by money the country's expatriate workforce - one of the world's most disparate and omnipresent - sends home. Some 10% of Bangladesh's total GDP, and 16% of Nepal's, comes from the remittances of pools of unskilled laborers working in Malaysia and the Gulf states. The economic impact of remittances is even higher in Central Asia, where entire villages send their able-bodied men to Russia. Tajikistan, for example, draws more than...
...numbers are what immediately stand out. She carries a 10-1 record through nine starts, plus a save in relief. She has finished each of her starts, pitching 73.1 innings out of the team’s total 147 innings. Opposing batters have struck out against her an astounding 115 times, as opposed to only 18 walks...
...free fall and the University’s endowment shrinking by at least 22 percent over the course of four months, Harvard issued $1.5 billion in taxable bonds on Dec. 5 and another $1 billion in tax-exempt debt five days later, bringing the University’s total debt in bonds and commercial paper to over $6 billion, according to a Dec. 5 credit report issued by Standard & Poor’s rating services. Despite the debt increase, S&P reaffirmed Harvard’s AAA long-term rating, citing its “strong financial resources...
...Down in the basement, the older chimps are less fortunate. Tanka, a 10-year-old male, sits in total social isolation—he is considered too dangerous to mix with other animals and too ugly to adorn any cards. In another enclosure, other unwanted chimps sit banging their hands against the floor. As guests approach, they repeatedly throw themselves against the Plexiglas windows that enclose them...