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...must study three years at an accredited school, but their work is technically illegal if they are not also medical doctors. That means that acupuncturists like Stéphane Bourquard can only bill private insurers for their fees; they of course pay taxes to the state, but can't collect state pensions because they're considered to be illegally practicing medicine. How can this muddle be sorted out? With lobbyists prescribing a multiplicity of approaches, European governments can be excused a little confusion. But alternative therapies are often the last resort for patients failed by conventional treatments or suffering chronic...
...says the Recording Industry Association of America and its international affiliate, the IFPI, which insist that Western record labels haven't received a dime in license fees. Nor have those copyright protectors authorized ROMS or FAIR to collect payments. The Russians "set up this bogus licensing scheme," says Lauri Rechardt, litigation director for the IFPI, "and quite clearly it's not a problem for the authorities." Counters ROMS general manager Oleg Nezus: "Foreign organizations that lay claims about pirate use...are either adventurists or idiots." (E-mails to Mediaservices were not returned...
...good intentions,” Dean of the Radcliffe Institute Drew Gilpin Faust told The Crimson at the time. But one year later, it appears that relatively little of the $50 million has been spent.According to Hammonds, money from the $50 million allocation has so far gone to data collection and analysis, the newly-established 120-person Harvard College Program for Research in Science and Engineering (PRISE), and daycare stipends for faculty children. According to PRISE director Gregory A. Llacer, the undergraduate summer research program will cost roughly $1 million over the course of several years. The cost of administering...
...wouldn’t think were appropriate, to names we’ve never heard of, to names of administrators at major universities, to names of senior scholars,” says Verba, the Pforzheimer University professor and director of the University Library.The search committee is continuing to collect new names for the list, according to Houghton.But in the coming months, the committee will narrow the slate with successively shorter and shorter “short lists.” Past searches have begun with a first cut exceeding 400 or 500 names. Charles P. Slichter...
...hard to imagine that life will ever return to normal. Samyono, a 65-year-old grandmother discharged from the hospital after getting stitches for a head wound, has resorted to begging. After seven hours walking around her village of Wedi in the hot sun, she has managed to collect 400 rupiah, or 40 cents, in handouts. "I don't know what else to do," says Samyono, "since my home is gone and I have nowhere to go." For her and so many others, the disaster seems to be just beginning...