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...considered one of the best in the country—its masters of public health degree is the most selective program run by any school at Harvard—Frenk will face a few significant challenges as dean.The school has outgrown its rented office space in the Longwood Medical Area, for example, and one of Frenk's biggest tasks will be to plan and preside over a move to new facilities in Allston.Additionally, though the school has a reputation as a powerhouse, it is also less wealthy than many of Harvard's other units, meaning that the new dean will...
...sermon by an imam in al-Sadr's movement. He blasted the American occupiers and the security deal being negotiated between the U.S. and al-Maliki's government. Worshippers laughed when asked, rhetorically, who controls the neighborhood, which is home to some 3 million of Baghdad's poor. "This area is controlled by the Sadrist movement. The Iraqi army only watches over Friday noon prayer - no more and no less," says worshipper Ali Kate'a, 31, as soldiers with rifles peered at the crowd from nearby rooftops. Says Abbas: "Of course they're nervous. They're not comfortable here...
Particularly with noise-induced hearing loss, the primary area where the ear is damaged is not the eardrum, not the part of the ear that you can see and not the bones that are inside the middle ear - it is actually deeper inside. It's where the nerve that brings the sound message up to the brain connects with the inner ear, and it involves some very specialized cells. These are hair cells, and specifically we're looking at the outer hair cells. When they're overexposed or stimulated at too high a level for too long a duration, they...
...general to be more generous from here on out. "So far we're not seeing the loan modifications we need from lenders," says Jackie Duran, a foreclosure counselor for the non-governmental Neighborhood Housing Services, which has been overwhelmed in recent months by homeowners from all over the Miami area. "When you've got people whose [interest] rates have jumped to 11 or 12%, a 1% reduction isn't going to work. You need at least a 3% break...
...claimed responsibility for Sunday's explosions, which Istanbul's governor Muammer Guler called a terrorist attack. The two explosions were cruelly timed 10 minutes apart; many in the normally quiet residential area on the outskirts of the city became victims when they ran to the scene after hearing the first explosion. Guler suggested that the attack may have come from the Kurdish separatist group PKK, which has carried out scores of terrorist bombings in Turkey since 1984. But the group's actions rarely target civilians, and a news agency close to the PKK said it condemned Sunday night's bombings...