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...prove equally effective in the U.S., according to Karen Davis of the nonprofit Commonwealth Fund, but change needs to come at the policy level. "Right now we can see how successful these programs are in places like Germany and Pennsylvania but then doctors and hospitals come back and ask, 'Who's going to pay for it?'," she says. "It's a fair question...
...takes a powerful magic to keep Brits quiet on a Saturday night - just ask the nation's beleaguered police. Yesterday evening, pubs and clubs fell silent as 20 million people tuned in to a TV show to see a question of global significance finally resolved. The final of Britain's Got Talent wasn't just about whether Susan Boyle - Scotland's least processed export since steel-cut porridge oats - would triumph. Nor were viewers drawn simply by the lure of car-crash television amid frenzied media speculation that Boyle or some other vulnerable contestant might crack on camera...
...last 30 days, Picard has filed six major lawsuits, many against Madoff's largest feeder funds. The combined suits ask for the return of over $10 billion in fraudulent profits. Picard's complaints allege the people running the funds "knew or should have known" Madoff was a fake, simply based on the exorbitant, non-stop returns they received. Suits have been filed against Walter Noel's Fairfield-Greenwich Group, which withdrew $3.2 billion since 1995, Jeffrey Picower's funds, totaling $6.7 billion withdrawn, and against Stanley Chais, whose funds took out over $1 billion since 1995. (See pictures...
...Green in Hanover, N.H. on March 10.“Unfortunately, in the biggest game of the season, we played our worst,” Crimson coach Kathy Delaney-Smith said after the loss.But while a third consecutive championship may have been too much to ask of the decorated veterans, their farewell season still saw a great deal of resilience and, ultimately, a berth in the NIT.There was one other important development for Harvard over the course of the year: the emergence of its two newest stars.“[Sophomore] Emma Markley came right in and took control...
...drafts of Yao’s research proposal. “Everything he gets, he absolutely deserves, and the credit should all go to him,” Weitz said of Yao. “Norm is smart, conscientious, kind, and works very hard. You can’t ask for a better student.” In the future, Yao said he plans to wrap up his current research in biophysics and branch out into the field of atomic physics. He will pursue a doctoral degree in condensed matter physics at Harvard this fall. --Staff writer Manning Ding...