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...spent the past five years exploring this daunting food landscape, following the industrial food chain from the Happy Meal back to the not-so-happy feedlots in Kansas and cornfields in Iowa where it begins and tracing the organic food chain back to the farms. My aim was simply to figure out what--as a nutritional, ethical, political and environmental matter--I should eat. Along the way, I've collected a few rules of thumb that may be useful in navigating what I call the Omnivore's Dilemma...
Medical care can be a gamble--and patients often don't understand the odds. University of California researchers aim to change that, with an interactive Web-based tool that they are calling the roulette wheel. This color-coded visual model uses a computer algorithm to help patients and their doctors assess the possible outcomes of different treatments. Take the prostate-specific-antigen (PSA) test for prostate cancer, for example. The wheel for PSA screening shows a typical patient the potential harm (incontinence, impotence, death) or benefit (no symptoms) that could result from treatment following a PSA test in which high...
...good thing that Harvard is mixing business with pleasure, leisure, and lecture? And can this new corporate model of a university actually teach us to be “citizens of the world?” The tension between the University’s aim of producing global citizens and the prevalent trends of commercialization and professionalism has been a defining aspect of my education here. Readers of my column (or anybody who can stand to listen to my rants during recruiting season, for that matter) will know of my wariness about investment banking careers and the like, as well...
Laboring under these very constraints, legendary New York Times reporter and columnist James Reston exhorted newspapers to aspire to the massive impact but poor aim of artillery pieces. Media, he says, should cover anything and everything, for journalists fail more surely when they pass up a potential story, not when they cover too much. Better to send more shells slamming into the public discourse than leave it unmolested and, consequently, unchallenged...
...hindsight, The Crimson’s coverage of the e-mail leak had little impact beyond embarrassing the club’s members, and for that I’m sorry. Our student-run artillery piece of a newspaper is always learning how to aim better. But, ultimately, in a free society, the price of enjoying unfettered access to information is sometimes finding oneself in the crosshairs...