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...interview last week, HSPH Dean Barry R. Bloom said that fewer than half of the students at the school currently receive aid from HSPH funds and only 60 percent receive any aid from the University, a figure that includes the CitiAssist program...
...percentage of international students at the School of Public Health has increased from 20 percent to around 33 percent during Bloom’s tenure, he said...
...have injectables, basically the more who have to. The CDC has not yet used the word epidemic, but it really is like an epidemic in that it goes from one person to the next. You know, in 2007 there were 11.7 million cosmetic procedures done. That's a 457 percent increase since 1997. So if your friends or people around you are having work done and you're not, overnight it's as if you've aged ten years. If you don't do anything, you're the athlete who's playing by the rules. The others are using appearance...
...problems today are not quite what they used to be: then inflation was 2.1 million percent, thousands of people were killed in terrorist violence and corruption scandals tarnished Garcia and many of his closest advisors. But this time, they seem to be hitting all at once and have forced Garcia's Cabinet to resign and have the president groping for ways to refine his administration. And the country's murderous bugaboo, the guerrillas of the Shining Path, have chosen this moment to stage their biggest attack in years...
...like those in Mississippi—where people must actually call in to request a request form for an absentee ballot—that convince me that unforgiving voting laws are greater culprits in low youth turnout than political disinterest. In a recent IOP Survey, conducted last spring, 72 percent of surveyed college students said they would be voting in the general election, a 10-point increase relative to 2000. Meanwhile, ask a college student how he can vote absentee: According to the 2003 Survey, one in three students will tell you he has no idea...