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...does someone approach someone else in any situation?” “What are the boundaries?” “How do people let each other in?” With the ethereal quality, there is a built-in boundary—there is one person who is going to be of this world and one person who is not of this world...
...ideas. You are drawn into Deo’s world. And that world is the world of international health affairs. I think there’s some ridiculous ideas out there that journalists shouldn’t be moved by what they see; there’s a certain built-in detachment to the job itself, but I was moved by what I saw in Haiti, and similarly moved by what Deo has done to create Village Health Works.THC: Tell us a little about Village Health Works.TK: It is a sister organization to Partners in Health [which Paul Farmer founded...
...Texting may owe its spot in the national debate to the ascendance of Twitter, as drivers turned to their cell phones to trade messages about the Iranian election or the whereabouts of David Lynch or Diddy. Perhaps crucially, the widespread use of smartphones makes texting far easier because of built-in keyboards. But whatever the cause, texting while driving is a danger to society, and Congress should act to stop it by banning the practice nationwide, imposing strict penalties, and launching an informational campaign to educate the country about its dangers...
...entropy": the degree of randomness in a given sequence. In English, for example, the letter t can be found preceding a large variety of other letters, but instances of tx and tz are far more infrequent than th and ta. "A written language comes about through this mix of built-in rules and flexible variables," says Mayank Vahia, an astrophysicist at the Tata Institute for Fundamental Research in Mumbai who worked on the study. Quantifying this principle through computer probability tests, the scientists determined that the Harappan script had a similar measure of conditional entropy to other writing systems, including...
...built-in conflict of interest that causes some patient advocates to bristle. In effect, they contend, doctors double dip - earning money from procedures as well as the overall operation of the hospital, of which they are shareholders. That provides plenty of incentive for physicians, who typically also work part-time at the local community nonprofit hospital, to recommend their easy-to-treat patients go across town to have procedures done at the private hospital where the doctors are investors. The House bill would address this issue by closing a loophole that has allowed doctors to send patients to hospitals they...