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...informed consumer will shop around and compare the wares and prices of various vendors. But some students’ indignation at the very thought of paying per semester, at most, a couple hundred dollars over the list price of books seems oddly disproportionate. Many students are indeed on financial aid, and very few have unlimited budgets, but, in terms of the total cost of a Harvard education, the cost of books alone appears quite paltry. Strangely, one never hears nearly as much bitterness over the obscene growth rate of tuition—money spent largely on ever-increasing appendages...
...unless other countries cut their greenhouse emissions, our efforts will be undercut," Akumu says. In the meantime, floods, droughts, earthquakes, landslides and other natural disasters are expected to become more frequent, along with the occurrence of diseases such as typhoid, cholera and malaria. Akumu warns that without aid from richer countries in the form of cash to pay for more durable roads and hospitals, Africa will be unable to handle more disasters like this summer...
Merck's success in Botswana and similar CSR successes by other companies around the globe raise an interesting question: might businesses be better at aid than traditional NGOs and charities? There's reason to suppose they might be. After all, businesses the size of Merck are capable of marshaling greater medical expertise and more resources than any one NGO, and they are obsessed with results and efficiency...
Greenblatt will teach the course with the aid of a virtual sea voyage presentation that integrates Google Earth, and he said the class will allow students to “virtually follow the paths of three ships as they travel the world...
...Perhaps it was the bottle of red, or the ros?, or the arak, or the starry Bekaa night, but suddenly it all started to make sense: We were drinking for Lebanon. The Lebanese economy is now hugely dependent on aid from foreign powers - who have turned the country into a regional battleground - and also on the foreign tourism that has turned Beirut into an Oriental Disneyland for the privileged few. But if foreigners start quaffing Lebanese wine en masse, Bekaa valley vineyards could become incubators for economic independence and environmental sustainability: In vino, libertas. Come to think of it, Israel...