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...that the long delay in granting 3G licenses - widely seen as an effort to allow more time for the development of China's own 3G technology to compete with established high-speed standards - means that tens of billions of dollars may be spent on networks that will be outdated within a few years when countries such as Japan are set to begin rolling out faster 4G services. "The life of 3G is almost over," Professor Kan Kaili of the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications told reporters when the licenses were announced. "There is no point in China getting...
...news article "Harvard To Offer Retirement Incentives Next Week" incorrectly stated the total number of University staffers, the number of staffers eligible for early retirement packages, and the number of eligible employees falling specifically within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. In fact, packages were offered to 1,600 staff members, not 1,000; 515 of those worked in FAS, not 700; and Harvard has many more staff members than the 3,500 reported in the article...
...next few years, up to 57,000 inmates may walk free from California’s prisons. On Monday, a panel of federal judges ordered the state to reduce its incarcerated population by up to 40 percent within a two- to three-year period in order to relieve severe overcrowding. The court stated that overcrowding was the primary reason for what it called “unconstitutional conditions” in California’s prisons—conditions that judges said were so poor that prisoners regularly commit suicide or die from lack of adequate health care...
...This drastic nature of Monday’s ruling underlines the serious practical problems within not only California prisons, but also within our current prison system as a whole. Prisons at around 200 percent capacity—with thousands bunked in hallways and gyms for lack of housing space—cannot possibly provide an acceptable level of medical or mental health care to inmates. In addition to prompting action to reduce overcrowding, we hope that the court order will also be viewed as a call for a more thoughtful, long-term evaluation of our theory of punishment. Strategies such...
...wanted to disavow the fact that they were exclusive,” Nelson said. Students in the course don’t seem to dwell on the inclusion of final clubs. “I think that the listing of final clubs was just trying to utilize the spaces within the Harvard community,” said Ryan W. Taney ’09, who is currently enrolled in the class. “I’m sure he was giving us the opportunity to use that as a sociological setting.” Students hoping to read...