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...country's estimated 12 million retail outlets are small, mom-and-pop operations, striving alongside countless hawkers, vendors and street-stall owners. The network of small local markets that supply much of India's groceries has been honed over decades, but the notoriously inefficient system of middlemen it relies upon has been dogged by wastage...
Data discrepancies are fascinating. I was researching the topic of global warming and happened upon the results of a survey conducted in July by Yale University's School of Forestry & Environmental Studies addressing American opinions of global warming. According to the press release issued by the school, "Americans consider global warming an urgent threat." I didn't pause very long before diving quickly into our data to see if this urgent threat was reflected in the way we search. If, as the study claimed, "nearly half of Americans believe that global warming is either already having dangerous impacts on people...
...caliber recruits and respect from national pundits won’t come simply by beating upon New Havenites and suburban-dwelling Jersey Tigers. It will come from beating the likes of UCLA, UC Santa Clara, Wake Forest, and SMU, perpetual national powerhouses of the soccer scene...
...once celebrated and assailed.”“We must recognize our accountability to the wider world,” Faust said, “for, as John Winthrop warned in 1630, ‘We must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us.’”—Staff writer Claire M. Guehenno can be reached at guehenno@fas.harvard.edu.—Staff writer Laurence H. M. Holland can be reached at lholland@fas.harvard.edu...
...Perry, a Chinese politics specialist, was named director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute last week. Perry begins her new role July 1. She succeeds Harvard-Yenching Professor of Chinese History and Philosophy Tu Weiming, who has served as the Director since 1996. “I hope to build upon the strong foundation laid by Professor Tu to broaden further the activities of the Institute, both geographically and programmatically,” Perry, the Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, said in a press release. “She is an internationally recognized specialist on Asia,” said Chair...