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...Because of the fluidity of the market, it is fairly easy for a non-active female firm to suddenly become very active and participate in the market. But declining acceptance rates into Harvard hinder entry for the vast majority of outside female firms...
...remain on campus to relocate for a month involves a slew of complicated adjustments. Will students in the Houses to remain open be required to pack up and store their belongings before winter break to enable J-term students to move in? Will tutors —the vast majority of whom live at Harvard year-round, with school and work commitments that require them to remain at Harvard during January—also be required to relocate...
...part of the market reforms launched by Deng Xiaoping in 1978, the country privatized vast portions of its health care system. The same market forces that helped China become an economic giant have undermined its health care system. Central government funding plunged, and citizens are expected to make up much of the difference out of their own pockets. During the 1990s alone the average percentage of expenses that individuals had to pay themselves rose...
...sharp increase in the number of attacks over the past few years has jolted aid officials, some of whom are wondering whether they might soon be driven out of conflict areas altogether. "Vast parts of Sudan, Somalia and Afghanistan are without humanitarian assistance because it has become too dangerous to operate there," says Peter Buth of the emergency team of Médicins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Holland. "It is incredibly frustrating." The surge in attacks, says the ODI report, "highlights the dearth of viable options to keep staff secure in the most volatile contexts, where humanitarian...
...South Africans were living on $1 a day in 2005, up from 1.9 million in 1996. In its 2009 election manifesto, even the ANC admits inequality has increased. "There are a handful of extremely wealthy people whose lives have changed dramatically," Suzman told Time before she died. "But the vast majority has been left behind. And there is a very clear link between that nondelivery and the violence and protests we experience. People are getting fed up, and understandably...