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When I told my 13-year-old daughter Alice I was taking her to get a vaccine that could help prevent cancer, she was mildly intrigued. "Cool," she allowed, "but I hate shots." Luckily, she didn't put up much resistance, and so we plunged into the heart of the most heated public-health matter of the moment: vaccinating tweenage girls against a sexually transmitted virus long before (one hopes!) they become sexually active...
...said the report is the first of its kind to comprehensively address the problems of small-scale mining in the often-overlooked South American nation. Entitled “All that Glitters: Gold Mining in Guyana,” the study documents the failure of Guyanese mining regulations to prevent human rights abuses and environmental devastation in the inner regions of the country. In addition to analyzing the nature of the problem in Guyana and suggesting specific steps that the government should take to relieve the situation, the report also urges members of the international community to pressure corporations...
...foster creative social options that don’t necessarily revolve around alcohol, said DAPA Talya J. Brettler ’08. Harvard has also engaged with the local community to combat underage drinking. Harvard has representatives on the Cambridge Licensee Advisory Board and is involved with the Cambridge Prevention Coalition, which “offers training to clerks and managers and owners to prevent underage sales or serving minors,” Travia said. Still, underage drinking remains a reality at Harvard, where 50 percent of the Class of 2010 identifies as drinkers, Travia said citing a AlcoholEdu survey...
...lawsuits, pretrial discovery eases the job of determining what went wrong, who bears responsibility--and how to prevent future misconduct. Besides, the government can file relatively few cases, while private shareholders can sue a swindler whenever they feel wronged. Egregious misconduct may merit jail, but if the Administration is serious about keeping fraud in check, it won't rely on criminal cases to get the message...
...inclinations. He moved to repair relations with China and South Korea, which had been damaged by his predecessor Junichiro Koizumi's repeated visits to the controversial Yasukuni Shrine where Japan's World War II military leaders are commemorated. Abe quickly earned a reputation as a pragmatist smart enough to prevent ideology from getting in the way of good foreign policy...