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Bednarz's prescription for lower-oil medicine also demands more emphasis on public health and preventive medicine - a focus on wellness rather than illness - which would naturally lower the burden on the health-care system. He adds that physicians can further reduce their dependence on technology - and oil - by better developing their experiential and tactile knowledge, reclaiming a part of medicine's low-tech past. Much of the energy-intensive lab tests and scans doctors routinely prescribe are "redundant, unnecessary," he says. "An important element in care is whether you feel the person caring for you cares...
...burden of proof rests solely on the shoulders of President-elect Obama...
...spring, the University rolled out a series of financial aid expansions, including ones at the College, Harvard Law School, and Harvard Medical School—initiatives University officials billed as Harvard’s commitment to student need. Families making less than $60,000 annually do not shoulder the burden of tuition at the College, and those earning up to $180,000 pay no more than 10 percent of their income...
...heavy lifting of story lines; Julien and the penguins (and a couple of cranky monkeys who serve as the movie's Statler and Waldorf) have only to shake their shtick, deliver their bright lines and get off. (Also, they're smaller in stature, hence cuter.) Liberated from the burden of consciences or backstories or any recognizable feelings; they have no obligation to audiences other than to make 'em laugh. In this comedy, they're the comic relief. It's as if the main narratives are obligations and the sideshow capers are blessings...
Like all candidates, Obama made a lot of promises during the campaign. High on his agenda are ambitious proposals for subsidies and tax breaks to develop new energy sources like biofuels, a sweeping health-care plan, and shifting the tax burden toward those higher on the income scale. By Wednesday congressional power players were already planning the path forward in anticipation of these initiatives. House Republicans are gaming leadership changes, and among top Democrats, there's an urgency to raise their dismal approval ratings by delivering for Obama. "Given the [Democratic] majorities in both bodies, it'll be incumbent...