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...Infectious Disease Bureau at the Boston Public Health Commission, said she believed that only a small number of patients could have been exposed to the infected students, explaining that the hygienic masks used during treatment as well as the low-volume caseloads typical of dental rotations would have minimized risk. The Dental School has faced a precautionary closure since last Thursday, after one of the School’s students was diagnosed with a case of influenza symptomatically similar to previously observed swine flu cases. According to Ferrer, that student had been in close contact with an unidentified individual...
...passing from pigs to people. In France, authorities have said they want to ban flights to and from Mexico, even though WHO officials and other epidemiologists say such extreme measures are likely to hurt far more than they'll help. (The E.U. rejected the French request on Thursday.) "The risk of collateral damage [on top of the flu] is very real," says Michael Osterholm, the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota...
...year studying the intersection of security and technology policy, says that any contract between FAS IT and Mail2World would have to ensure that Mail2World does not turn over student data in the case of a legal investigation or a subpoena. But even then, he cautions that there is a risk that Mail2World may not honor the contract.David J. Malan ’99, a lecturer widely known on campus for teaching Computer Science 50: “Introduction to Computer Science I,” says he thinks outsourcing e-mail is not a concern. But he adds that students...
...path and generates the innovative ideas necessary for a 21st-century infrastructure to develop. “We are Harvard students,” they say—well educated and positioned to be flexible and open to new ventures. In the past, Harvard students often felt risk-adverse and selected next steps based on what they thought were well-traveled paths with a promise of high income or perceived prestige. While these remain considerations, the changes in the economy and the decline in volume of once-plentiful, high-paying certain types of jobs has empowered students to consider broader...
Inequalities in American public schools indicate one of our nation’s greatest failings. The massively disparate educational opportunities available to children based on the socioeconomic status of their families is a tragedy so familiar and ingrained that talk of it risks seeming banal, and the fact that educational inequality falls largely down racial lines further perpetuates the sordid history of race in the United States. To say that the achievement gap is a persistent and consistent record of misunderstanding and prejudice is an understatement.Beyond the familiar story of educational inequality in the United States, however, lies an additional...