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...associate professor at Yale Law School, explored what restrictions on individual liberty, in the event of a public health crisis, are legally and morally tolerable. He discussed the “prioritarian” approach to distributive equality of medical resources, which aims to minimize the greatest individual burden associated with disease. “It is easier to spread the burden before diseases than after,” he said. “Now, before the disease, we have strong distributive-justice reasons to invest extensively, including inefficiently.” “If we don?...

Author: By Yingqiuqi chelsea Lei, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Profs: Prepare for Pandemic | 4/6/2006 | See Source »

...California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. In the El Paso hospitals, 50% of the patients are on some kind of public assistance, mainly Medicaid. Just about the only patients paying full freight, up front, are rich Mexicans who cross over to see a specialist. "Border towns have a double burden of disease," says Russell Bennett, chief of the U.S.-Mexico Border Health Commission, "those of emerging nations, like diarrhea, as well as [First World] diseases like stress and diabetes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: La Nueva Frontera: A Whole New World | 4/4/2006 | See Source »

...economic realities. Expenses go up outside the gates of the Yard, and so the price of attending the College naturally rises as well. But as increases in financial aid continue to offset tuition raises, and as Byerly Hall continues to look for ways to appropriately reduce the financial burden on all but the wealthiest of students, we are hopeful that Harvard College will continue to become increasingly affordable in the years to come...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: The Smart Investment | 4/4/2006 | See Source »

...This is the timeframe in which states are required to provide students the basic skills they need to be “productive” members of society. If the states cannot teach children basic algebra and other essential skills in 12 or sometimes 13 years, why should the burden fall to universities? Standardized testing already exists in high schools thanks to illegitimate, improper federal bullying such as the No Child Left Behind Act. This practice, imposing a national standardized education curriculum, is improper at the high school level, let alone at the college level. Not only is college completely...

Author: By Shai D. Bronshtein, | Title: Standardization Without Reason | 4/3/2006 | See Source »

...self-employed, who have thus far been exempt.) Merkel's government has set itself a deadline of the summer recess in July to come up with a draft compromise. The Chancellor must find a way to balance the egalitarian impulse of the spd, which could impose a heavier burden on employers and increase the cost of labor, against the free-market instincts of her own party, which may not find a way to raise enough cash. But the government also has on its agenda reforms of the tax system and the way in which laws are approved at the federal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Land of Smiles | 4/1/2006 | See Source »

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