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...access to scholarship hits even harder on people outside of our well-funded elite universities. Most universities cannot begin to afford the journal prices for which even Harvard strains to pay. Individuals seeking to navigate with their loved ones the bewildering complexity of treatments for serious disease are shut out from the sources their doctors read, and those looking to learn about public-policy issues like global warming are denied access to critical research. Most urgently, for researchers and policymakers in the developing world, access to knowledge can mean life or death for millions suffering from AIDS and other diseases...
...November 29, 2006, Radio Universidad, the radio station of the Benito Juarez Autonomous University of Oaxaca was officially forced off the air by police. The police, incensed by the leftist politics and popularity of the station among Oaxaca residents, shut its operations down after conflict in the Oaxaca region...
However, just as I was leaning back, iPod firmly planted in my ears and eyes squeezed shut, I received a small tap on my shoulder from said father...
...second most common type of mental illness. Lifetime prevalence of depression is 6 to 8 percent, whereas 40 percent of the population may have experienced depression at least once in their lives, Barreira told the eight students who attended. “The entire physiological system is in shut-down mode,” Barreira said. A 2004 Crimson poll found that 80 percent of Harvard undergraduates felt depressed at least once over the course of the year, and 10 percent said they had seriously considered committing suicide. Although Harvard students may have heavy workloads, Barreira said that a recent...
...Shutting down Imus is bad for women’s athletics, and it’s bad for free expression. Someone—however contemptible—lost his job because people would rather shut him up by firing him than by confronting what he said. But such suppression does little to address the underlying problem. Next time, that person might not be so easy to despise. If, 35 years after the enactment of Title IX, the validity of women’s athletics is still a question for some, and women athletes are still derided for their athleticism?...