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Several members of the Harvard student-run non-profit, Circle of Women—which promotes the education of women in the developing world and has just finished building a secondary school in Afghanistan—were present at the event. Elizabeth K. Brook ’10, co-director of the organization, said she agreed with Kristof and WuDunn’s emphasis on incremental efforts, explaining that the cost of education and clean water can be covered for a student in their newly-constructed school with just $5 per month...
...should be on a ventilator and in a wheelchair. Instead, only six months after the accident - which took the lives of Adenhart, Henry Pearson and Courtney Stewart - Wilhite walks, talks, lifts weights, jogs - and smiles. A catcher on the Cal State Fullerton teams that won the Division 1A College World Series in 2004 and reached the finals in 2006 and '07, Wilhite would like to play in the alumni game next year. Indeed, on Aug. 29, he threw out the first pitch at the Angels-Athletics game. Once 5 ft. 11 in. and 190 lb., Wilhite has regained...
...spinal cord is very sensitive and any minimal pressure on it, twisting or stretching, and it stops working - usually permanently," says the surgeon. The skull sits on the top vertebra "just like Atlas holding the world on his shoulders; that is what C1 does," says Bhatia, referring to the anatomical designation of the vertebra. In Wilhite's case, all of the ligaments that hold the skull on top of C1 were "completely torn" and there were small fractures to C1 itself. "It is very unusual today to have three healthy young people die in a car crash," says Bhatia...
...reason the estimates are all over the canvas is that Iran, like Iraq, is one of the world's worst countries in which to establish facts. It's a vicious police state dedicated to stopping its national-security secrets from leaking. The few journalists and academics allowed into Iran are sharply circumscribed in their contacts and the places they can visit. The quickest way to be arrested or escorted out of that country is to ask questions about its bomb. Western diplomats and intelligence operatives have only marginally better access. The IAEA knowledge of Iran's nuclear programs is limited...
...then there is the possibility that Iran is playing us in all of this. It wants the world's attention. It wants to be taken seriously. It wants to sit at the table with the G-20. And there's no better way to do this than scaring us with the specter of a nuclear-armed Iran...