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...from technical skills education is troubling given that practicing art is integral to thinking about art. A comprehensive education in any field is supposed to give students the tools to explore issues that interest them in their subject of choice. Just about every concentration requires students to master certain basic skills, whether it is through tutorials, survey courses, prerequisites, or something similar, in order to move on to more advanced and often more conceptual material. Painting courses such as Mitchnick’s provide that kind of base for students who want to concentrate in art. In keeping with...
...mentioned by The Crimson, first-year medical students have weekly “clinics” during which physicians present patients to provide clinical context to basic science. During one such clinic, Dr. Julian Adams—the lead developer of the drug bortezomib—described the drug’s scientific discovery and clinical development. Dr. Richardson then interviewed a patient who was being successfully treated with bortezomib-based therapy, providing a very human perspective to the presentation. The discussion of the patient’s experience with both the disease and treatment was inspirational and relevant...
Further handicapping proceedings is intense time pressure. START expires in December of this year, meaning that an agreement will need to be reached by August if the treaty is to be approved by the U.S. Senate prior to START's expiration. Then there is an even more basic problem. "Over the past decade," says Steve Andreasen, a former director for arms control on the National Security Council, "many of the career officials experienced in these issues have left government, and they have not been replaced during an era when arms control was not a priority." Peter Zimmerman, former chief scientist...
...billion people out of poverty from 1981 to 2004, medical costs remained one of the top financial threats to low-income rural residents. With that burden in mind, Beijing has said it will spend $125 billion over the next three years building thousands of clinics and hospitals and expanding basic health care coverage to 90% of the population. "This commitment to improve equitable access to essential health care for all in China is quite important," says Sarah Barber, a China-based World Health Organization expert on health policy. (See pictures of the deadly Sichuan earthquake...
...gone through the military or its provincial reconstruction teams. The projects are designed to earn goodwill for foreign forces as much as for local governors, but they also have the unintended consequence of undermining the central government, which never gets a chance to take credit for providing basic services such as roads, electricity and education. "We aren't here to win hearts and minds," says Jeremy Brenner, a U.S. State Department adviser based in Jalalabad. "What we need is to engender hope and faith in the Afghan government...