Word: problems
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...park's restaurants originally planned to serve shark's fin soup, a Chinese delicacy, until environmentalists protested. But the biggest knock against Hong Kong Disneyland - of which the Hong Kong government owns 57% - is a lack of attractions. In July, Disney and the government moved to remedy that problem by announcing that three new attractions would be added over the next five years...
During the conference, several other speakers referred to the rise of breast cancer in the developing world as the “unforeseen problem.” According to information packets distributed to symposium attendees, breast cancer is often viewed as a disease affecting only older women from wealthier, developed countries. “Breast cancer, left untreated, is a death sentence,” said Amy C. Sievers, a Dana Farber physician...
...meet up for group studying can be notoriously difficult on campus. Libraries do not permit talking, Lamont Cafe and dhalls can be obnoxiously crowded and loud, and available classrooms are few and far between. However, the Harvard library system has come up with a potential answer to this problem: the Collaborative Learning Space in Lamont B-30, which opened today...
Daniel P. Robinson ‘10, a member of the Harvard Secular Society, echoed this idea. “While political views can be challenged, religious views are sometimes considered off-limits, which is a problem,” said Robinson...
...Obama may have backpedaled on the settlement freeze in the belief that the Israelis had gone as far as they are willing to go, and that no peace can be made without them. His problem, of course, is that no peace can be made without the Palestinians either, and that Abbas' willingness to make do with whatever was on offer from Washington until now has made him an increasingly marginal figure among his own people. Even if the U.S. manages, once again, to cajole Abbas into acting against his own better judgment and restart talks, the achievement will...