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- 01 Jun 2006
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Money and Mortals
Le Grand Diable d'Argent Patron de la Finance Hand-colored etching, artist unknown (France, early 19th century) COURTESY BAKER LIBRARY HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS In more than 1,000 woodcuts, engravings, etchings, and lithographs from the 16th to the 19th century, Baker...
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- 24 Mar 2014
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Don't Fear the Reaper
- 12 Nov 2014
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A Challenge to the New Congress: Pass Housing Finance Reform
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Bless this Stress
National Geographic for Disney+/Craig Parry In the first episode of the National Geographic docuseries Limitless with Chris Hemsworth, Modupe Akinola (MBA 2001/PhDOB 2009) and the Australian actor gaze across downtown Sydney to a skyscraper in the distance, teetering...
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- 01 Mar 2024
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In Harmony
just two birthdays. “If you made it to your first birthday you were probably going to have a life, considering that infant mortality rates were so high,” he explains. “And the 60th was, basically, you’ve had a good life.” Having reached...
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- 11 Mar 2024
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In Harmony
behind when he’s gone. For hundreds of years, he says, Koreans celebrated just two birthdays. “If you made it to your first birthday you were probably going to have a life, considering that infant mortality rates were so high,” he...
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- 01 Oct 2001
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Courage and Hope in Africa
the country's economy and infrastructure in shambles and with its enormous social problems (Sierra Leone has the highest infant mortality rate in the world), Van Gerpen is seeking aid for UNICEF from Western governments and international...
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- 07 Oct 2021
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Bringing Light to the Fight
Zealand government instituted free breast cancer screenings for women ages 50 to 64, later extended to 45 to 69. The foundation is currently working to extend those screenings to women up to the age of 74. Data shows that access to these free screenings has reduced the...
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- 15 Apr 2021
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Bringing Light to the Fight
that access to these free screenings has reduced the breast cancer mortality rate in the country by 34 percent, says Smyth, who was awarded a Companion of the NZ Order of Merit by Queen Elizabeth for services to Women and Governance, in...
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- 01 Apr 2002
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"Rising to the Challenge" Program Addresses Post-9/11 Issues
"Dehydration is the leading cause of death among refugees. Before this panel ends, nearly eight hundred children will die of dehydration caused by diarrhea." Noting that the mortality rate for Afghan children under the age of five is 25...
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- 07 Sep 2021
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One Degree of Difference
women’s health in the United States, which has the worst rate of maternal mortality of any industrialized nation. Women of color are four times more likely to die in the delivery room. “People theorize that 50 percent to 75 percent of...
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- 01 Mar 2016
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HBS Fund Helps Fuel Faculty Research and New Learning Experiences
pulled from the data, Sadun says, can extend beyond private firms. She wants to see if her research can help decrease mortality rates in neonatal intensive care units by increasing accountability and communication and teaching doctors to...
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- 01 Jun 2016
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Faculty Q&A: That’s Classic
obituary and Sheryl’s reflections on his unexpected death. That comes close to Marcus Aurelius thinking about his own mortality in Meditations; Augustine’s account of his mother’s death in Confessions; an extract from the historian...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Building a Strong and Prosperous Society
lowest voter participation rates of any major democracy. Are you optimistic about business and government working together in support of democracy? RH: I’m not optimistic, but I am hopeful. I think the decline of democracy is a mortal...
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- 01 Jun 2001
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Merrill Lynch's Stan O'Neal
racial divide in cancer mortality rates. “We as a society have the capability to provide much greater care,” he says. “It’s a matter of marshaling focus and resources. There is an enormous amount of good that can be done.” O’Neal is still...
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- 16 Nov 2011
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Are Humans Cost-Effective?
Watson’s superhuman powers can send mixed messages. Technology, once welcomed for freeing people from drudgery and backbreaking labor, is so powerful and its innovations so swift and relentless that mere mortals have a hard time keeping...
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Garry Emmons