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What will happen during the next pandemic? No one can predict, but even a virus as mild as the 1968 strain would kill many tens of thousands in the U.S. alone. Since 1968, demographic changes have made influenza a greater, not a lesser, threat. Our population now includes more elderly and more people with a weakened immune system. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that influenza kills 36,000 Americans in an average year. The CDC also calculates that a pandemic caused by a virus comparable to that of 1968 would kill between...
...Harvard in 2005. The sort of stereotypical thinking that leads to such irrational responses to contact with black people is the same motivation behind the creation of organizational nicknames, like Angry Black Harvard Women (in place of Association for Black Harvard Women, or ABHW), and—to a lesser extent—alleged self-segregating tendencies. Granted, people come from a variety of backgrounds and may have limited experience with those unlike them, and therefore may thus far have been depending on unreliable sources like the media to frame their impression of black people. But at Harvard, with...
...where one myopic offering in your menagerie might focus on those didgeridoos, the Core of tomorrow might undertake a cross-study of flutes in their many incarnations, from the pan-flutes of the Roman and Greek empires to the lesser-known (but no less important) Papuan and Khoisan flutists—perhaps even Bach’s flute sonatas would make a brief appearance. All in the name of a general education...
Meyer’s considerably more significant departure—he left with 30 of HMC’s 175 employees, including four top managers—garnered his fund a lesser amount of money...
That leaves the HCC charging high ticket prices for lesser acts. Until the HCC is given more money, students need to go into concerts with slightly lower expectations. Cusack says that at this point, Harvard “just doesn’t have the money to get the big names...