Word: concerns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...OPEN LETTER to the Medical School faculty last week, Dean Daniel C. Tosteson expressed his concern about research fraud in the scientific community and called for suggestions on how to prevent it. In effect, he has tacked a suggestion box to the great marble pillars of Building A. We would drop by with the following note...
...Crimson's two articles the week before vacation about the homeless people in Harvard Square came just in time for winter and the holidays, seasons that make being homeless especially difficult. The articles focused attention on the problem but they showed a lack of concern when they neglected to include interviews with homeless people along with the quotes from Harvard officials, doctors, local activists and students. The homeless should be allowed to offer their suggestions and describe their experiences in their own words. Providing the men's testimony would have added a sense of immediacy and humanity to an issue...
...more serious concern among doctors is that health-care providers will hurry into trendy services without acquiring real expertise. "I worry that in their entrepreneurial zeal they are going into things that they don't do well," says Physician Sidney Wolfe, director of the Naderite Public Citizen Health Research Group. Another complaint is that hospitals and clinics are putting too much emphasis on simple, promotable services, especially those aimed at the wealthy. Says Physician Ron Anderson, president of Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas: "Many hospitals are becoming boutiques, delivering only the profitable services. It bothers...
Moscow's newfound concern for its wayward citizens could have unforeseen consequences. By welcoming the emigres back, the Kremlin has eliminated one of the strongest deterrents to applying to leave the country: the utter finality of emigration. With that policy changing, more Soviet citizens may be eager to gamble on the West. Now, if the experience proves disappointing, the Soviet safety net may still be there to catch them...
Islam has become a special problem, and a special concern. Soviet Muslims are concentrated in the U.S.S.R.'s strategic southern border regions and maintain ties with Islamic peoples in neighboring countries. Official worries have intensified since the 1979 invasion of Afghanistan; many Soviet Muslims sympathize with Afghan co-religionists battling Soviet troops, as do many of the Central Asian conscripts in Soviet uniform...