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Over the past seven years the cost of attending Harvard has risen by an average of 6.4 percent annually...
...Resende firmly denied that he has any miracle cures in mind. But if he hopes to keep his job for very long, Resende will have to move fast to placate his impatient boss and rescue his inflation-weary countrymen. For the record: over the past 25 years prices have risen...
...first major target of health-care reformers' wrath. The President last month blasted the price of prescription drugs as "shocking" and blamed vaccinemakers for pursuing "profits at the expense of our children." His remarks came a day after Hillary Rodham Clinton denounced the cost of childhood vaccines -- which have risen 1,000% in a decade -- and suggested that drugmakers would oppose the Administration's forthcoming health-care reforms. The industry's earnings also came under attack; Democratic Congressman Henry Waxman of California last week unveiled a 354-page Office of Technology Assessment report that charged that drug firms raked...
...this deeply felt, quasi-liturgical piece -- composed 17 years ago but newly recorded -- is captivating a huge public on both sides of the Atlantic, far bigger than most serious compositions ever reach. It is at the top of the classical charts in the U.S. and Britain and, amazingly, has risen as high as No. 6 on the British pop charts as well. "I can't believe the fuss is actually about me," says its astonished creator...
According to government estimates, 30,000 people could die this winter from cold, malnutrition or starvation. Already the death rate has risen sharply as a weakened population succumbs to the diseases of deprivation; morgues are overflowing with corpses that relatives cannot afford to bury. Says Sarkis Abramian, the chief doctor at the central ambulance service: "The Armenian nation is on the road to destruction...