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...Poles working abroad to come home? They are already coming back. Not only because of some miracle I promised, but because of the exchange rate and the saturation of Irish labor markets. So the problem of immigration for money is not a question of Poland being abandoned by millions of people forever. Still, the brain drain is a real problem...
...Brain Break Harvard people can never have too few problem sets or too much Hemp-Plus Granola...
...Harvard Project for Sustainable Development (HPSD) discovered a similar water sanitation problem in Los Jobos, Nicaragua, a rural community of only 250 people in northern Nicaragua...
...water, becomes polluted somewhere between the source spring and their water supply. The contaminated water has caused outbreaks of diarrhea, worms, and other waterborne illnesses among the villagers, according to Harvard College Engineers Without Borders President Jacqueline E. Stenson ‘08. Concerned about this public health problem at a time when the UN has officially declared 2008 as the “International Year of Sanitation,” Stenson, along with dozens of other Harvard undergraduates, has traveled to villages like Suriel in developing regions around the world to educate villagers about how to improve their local...
...telling a single person anything he didn’t already know. But his words still conveyed information. The information was that all the other people now knew the same thing that each one of them did.” Social change often is a collective action problem: no one is willing to state their knowledge, belief, or opinion—against segregation, for instance—until they know others share...