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...most stressful final period.” “I think it’s important to have a mixture of final exams and papers,” said Johnston, who like Stebbins, is a History and Literature concentrator. “It’s good to spread it out. Or at least not have to write five papers. That was a little too much,” he said. Whether a student has a final exam is often a function of the discipline as well as the professor’s personal preferences. Humanities and social science...
...next step came as the spread of communications technologies, improved transportation networks and freer international trade enabled trading companies to begin sourcing supplies and products from Korea, Indonesia, India--wherever they could get the best price and quality. Victor Fung, Li & Fung's group chairman, says his firm had hit on the "idea that you can take work apart and allocate it to other parts of the world. We took the whole thing and disaggregated...
...loading methanol in Malaysia. Port operator Hutchison Whampoa has an equally impressive system to help run its Hong Kong port. Incoming ships send data on their cargoes to Hutchison's operations center onshore. That information then gets fed through computers that optimize the loading and unloading. Hutchison has spread the technology. With 44 ports in 22 countries, including Panama, Germany and Egypt, it is now the world's largest port operator. Hong Kong outfits "are exporting expertise and management to other countries," says John Meredith, group managing director of Hutchison's port business. As Hong Kong's economy becomes increasingly...
Winter in the Northern Hemisphere means one chilling prospect for globalhealth officials: it's bird-flu season. Nine countries have announced outbreaks in recent weeks, and a replay of 2006--when H5N1 killed 80 people and spread to the Middle East and Africa--could well be on the way. In an effort to stay ahead of the virus, the Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday said it is giving $132.5 million to makers of bird-flu vaccines that rely on immune-system boosters called adjuvants. "In the event of an influenza pandemic," said HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt...
Seven of Vietnam's 64 provinces have reported poultry outbreaks this year, and more than 30,000 birds have been culled since December. Officials fear that caged birds transported on crowded buses and trains during next month's Lunar New Year festivities could spread the virus throughout the country. Over the past four years, 42 people in Vietnam have died of avian...