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Like shopkeepers clearing out superfluous inventory, governments around the world are dumping a vast array of state-owned assets onto the open market. This may be the biggest fire sale in history, with properties up for grabs everywhere: in Western Europe, Asia and, most dramatically, Eastern Europe and Latin America. For finance ministers from Brasilia to Budapest, the disposal of publicly owned enterprises has become the great hope for debt-burdened economies...
...populous regions of the U.S., and later in the spring -- when more people spend time outside -- than had been thought. Worse, the additional thinning of this protective layer of gases is expected to increase substantially the amount of harmful ultraviolet radiation reaching the earth's surface, threatening a vast array of life-forms and boosting the number of skin-cancer deaths in the U.S. alone by 210,000 over the next 50 years...
...past, Harvard search committees have asked for only a little, if any, administrative experience from those it appointed president. While never an easy task, running Harvard then was much simpler than it is now. Anyone with leadership ability, a respectable scholarly background, a good family and a wide array of contacts was seen as qualified...
...first it will be necessary to bring some order to the bewildering array of options. While there are still some doubts that an ideal vaccine can actually be created, some researchers believe that enough good candidates now exist to warrant drastically narrowing the search and selecting the best and the most effective experimental vaccines for major trials in humans. Last month at a meeting of the Institute of Medicine in Washington, scientists and health officials began to lay the groundwork for trials in the U.S. and other nations. In April researchers from the World Health Organization (WHO) will begin visiting...
...help accomplish this goal, organizers are offering an array of lectures by scholars from Harvard and other universities, including Princeton, Alyea said...