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...world-class faculty, a student body from every corner of the globe, and access to the largest private library collection on the planet was good. But it was not good enough for Katherine L. Peisker ’09. After spending her first two years inside Harvard’s ivy-clad gates, Peisker decided to look beyond the Yard to broaden her education. Bidding farewell to her blockmates in Leverett House, Peisker took off on a year-long journey, spending the first half of her junior year living in Moscow and the second studying in a Ukrainian Greek Catholic...
...Meanwhile, many HIV activists encourage medical doctors in these contexts to rely on the assistance of traditional healers (who are known to spread the myth that sleeping with a virgin cures diseases. While one NGO in Zimbabwe has already tried to debunk that myth, it is astonishing that donors spend millions of dollars on expensive HIV testing and (comparably) miniscule resources are spent on providing vital information to containing the spread of AIDS...
...back when the Democrats were last in power. That was during the wake of the 1997 Asian financial crisis when the party's inability to discipline unwieldy coalition members led to political paralysis and financial mayhem. Instead of taking decisive action to gird the economy, politicians seemed to spend more of their time squabbling with each other and cooking up corrupt deals that alienated the public. Now that Thailand will be governed by yet another unlikely coalition, no one wants a repeat of that painful period in Thai history...
...online games, which are free to play but charge players small amounts for in-game items and upgrades, like the Korean games Cabal Online or MapleStory, have been making inroads into western markets, and are relatively recession-friendly in that players can choose exactly how much to spend...
...with in Afghanistan didn't seem to have spent much time assessing how big an army Afghanistan could support. "It seemed like a new question to a lot of people," he says. "They hadn't spent time computing projected Afghan GDP and the likely percent of GDP they could spend on security and how many troops that would allow them to support." Biddle says that because Afghanistan can't support a unified force big enough to defend itself, provincial authorities and their militias will have to pick up the slack. "Going to a decentralized Afghan end state - with local authorities...