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You probably haven't heard much about the assistant surgeon, but all the same, it might interest you to know that we're running out of them. In teaching hospitals, the assistant surgeon in most operating rooms is a senior resident or fellow - a medical-school graduate who is in...
But outsmarting the markets, Mankiw says, requires huge quantities of time poring over listings—time that he says he prefers to devote to academic pursuits.
It’s quickly apparent that Ian brings a cerebral bent to his work. He actively seeks and hoards information, isolating and then coddling a nugget of curiosity until it blossoms into a sprawling research project. A few years ago, Ian decided he needed to understand economics, so he...
The other side has resources of its own. The biggest generic-drug company, Teva Pharmaceuticals, has spent more than $2 million on lobbying and also sponsored academic work on the issue, aiming to disprove Duke's Grabowski. Generic-drug manufacturers are allied with such powerful organizations as AARP, labor unions...
The Lowdown: There's a certain cruelty to a rise in education costs amid an economic slump: it makes the single most effective tool to help the underemployed and jobless out of their rut become all the more unreachable. Though the government and private donors have stepped in to ease...