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Hollywood television and film actress Ashley Judd recently enrolled in the Harvard Kennedy School’s Mid-Career Master in Public Administration (MC/MPA) program, according to her publicist, Cara Tripicchio...
...book is organized as a series of linked biographical sketches. One of them is of Humphry Davy, a cocky little guy who was born in Cornwall, England, in 1778. He was an apothecary's apprentice who practically frothed with genius and ambition. Over the course of his career, he postulated the carbon cycle, used electricity to isolate sodium and potassium and saved countless lives by inventing a safety lamp for coal miners. He also studied the health benefits of nitrous oxide - laughing gas. Oh, to be a fly on the wall while Davy huffed 18th century whippits with Robert Southey...
Herschel is the most touching figure in Age of Wonder. A refugee from Germany, he began his career as an oboist, but at 27 became consumed with curiosity about the stars and started building his own telescopes. He was discovered by the son of a Royal Society member, who stumbled over him moon-gazing in the streets one night through a home-brewed 7-ft. (2 m) telescope that turned out to be more powerful than that of the astronomer royal. Herschel went on to pioneer the idea of a vast and unimaginably old universe. After looking through Herschel...
Even without reform, experts on the health-care labor force estimate there is currently a 30% shortage in the ranks of primary-care physicians. Fewer than 10% of the 2008 graduating class of medical students opted for a career in primary care, with the rest choosing more lucrative specialties. That could pose problems if a national health-care bill is enacted. After Massachusetts enacted mandates for universal health insurance in 2006, those with new coverage quickly overwhelmed the state's supply of primary-care doctors, driving up the time patients must wait to get routine appointments. It stands to reason...
President Obama told the American Medical Association in May that the government should do "more to reward medical students who choose a career as a primary-care physician and who choose to work in underserved areas instead of a more lucrative path." As part of health reform, the Administration wants more money for the National Health Service Corps, which offers loan forgiveness to primary-care providers - including nurse practitioners as well as doctors - who agree to work in rural and remote areas. But even if these measures encourage more medical students to pursue careers in general practice, it will take...