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...most hospitals, one can only hope that caregivers' minds aren't as cluttered as their workplace--what with medical records stacked outside patients' rooms, lab orders pinned to hallway bulletin boards and little sticky notes pasted everywhere. The new $60 million Indiana Heart Hospital will try to avoid such a mess as the world's first paperless, all-digital cardiac facility...
These House lists are meant to double as bulletin boards and wide-reaching virtual House communities. While gathering together all the members of Quincy seems a daunting task, a simple e-mail to Quincy-Open will reach the inboxes of 336 students, tutors and staff...
...House lists are only mediocre bulletin boards. In a survey of 92 Harvard undergraduates that I conducted last spring, students ranked House e-mail lists as less effective at getting information to them than either posters in the Yard or announcements in their House dining halls. While the lists are probably sufficient if you want to sell an old textbook, e-mails sent to uninterested students’ inboxes are easily ignored...
That's a big claim. Official U.S. judgments don't go quite so far. But last week's classified FBI Intelligence Bulletin did say the arrest of Mohammed "deals a severe blow to al-Qaeda's ability to plan and carry out attacks against the United States." That includes "spectacular" operations. The bulletin says Mohammed met last year with Jose Padilla, an American convert to Islam who was arrested in Chicago last summer on his return from meetings with al-Qaeda operatives in Pakistan. Mohammed, says the bulletin, discussed with Padilla "a plot involving the detonation of a radiological device...
With all this commotion, many have questioned the role of House lists within the House community. Ideally these lists should be unregulated forums and should serve as both virtual bulletin boards—with listings for events, opportunities and great deals—and as casual discussion groups where a range of pertinent topics, from great classes to the impending war in Iraq, from recent movies to black history, may be discussed. Most lists already serve both functions and constructively foster acquaintances between list members, alert members to House events raise awareness of current affairs...