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...delivery rooms across the country, a new ritual is taking place right alongside the practice of cutting the umbilical cord. Nurses and doctors are also taking a drop of blood with a quick prick of the newborn's heel, then testing the sample for an array of genetic and metabolic diseases. (Read "What Can Genetic Tests Tell...
...good options and good incentives are not always enough. Sometimes people still need a helpful cue about their best choice, says Richard Thaler, a behavioral economist at the University of Chicago and author of Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness. Faced with a vast array of alternatives, many people--paralyzed--pick nothing, according to Thaler's research. "Sending people a bunch of options--that they can join health clubs or Weight Watchers or something--is probably not going to work," he says. What works is making good health effortless--say, by having a nurse come into the office...
...fragile ice. I imagined the FBI sweeping in and rounding us all up for trespassing. That would be a hell of a way to miss an inauguration. It turned out we had not trespassed. We emerged from under the Theodore Roosevelt bridge, tromped across Constitution Gardens, and reached the array of virgin portable toilets and as-yet-unmanned police barricades that marked the beginning of the viewing area behind the Washington monument. We were still over a mile from the Capitol steps on which the president-elect would take his oath. Here I broke off from my unticketed acquaintances...
...whole array of Harvard alums and faculty are working in Washington right now to use their knowledge garnered at Harvard to make a difference,” Faust said, noting the University’s involvement with the new administration...
...NBCC, an organization of over 900 book reviewers and editors from a vast array of American publications, has been giving out awards since 1975. A 24-member Board of Directors is responsible for selecting both the nominees and winners...