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...public portion is growing fast. "Medicare and Medicaid on their current trajectory cannot be sustained," Obama told a group of columnists aboard Air Force One. "And the only way I think we're going to fix it is if we see those two problems in the broader context of bending the curve down on health-care inflation." Obama's betting the future of the U.S. economy--and a lot of his own political capital--that this is even possible...
...clear that there's a bit of an obsession with process in the Obama Administration as well, but this is a necessary corrective. Rather than making peremptory judgments, pro and con, about foreign leaders, as Bush did, Obama seems predisposed to see every foreign policy problem in its global context - the decision to press the reset button with Russia, for example, could have a profound influence on the start of talks with Iran, especially if the Russians agree to help dissuade the Iranians from an illegal nuclear program (in return for a U.S. pledge to halt the antimissile defense system...
...Public Health. He was elected to the Institute of Medicine, a prominent national advisory board, in 2006. While researching at the Medical School, he continues to teach a popular course at the College, Sociology 190: “Life and Death in the USA: Medicine and Disease in Social Context.” Christakis’ wife, Erika, who is currently traveling in India, is an anthropologist and elementary school teacher who has spent her professional career advocating for children and families. A graduate of the College, she holds a master’s degree in early childhood education from...
...Paraguay," for example, he employs the language of industrial production as art criticism: "Sheet art is generally dried in smoke and is dark brown in color. Bulk art is air-dried, and changes color in particular historical epochs." (Barthelme quotes lose some of their magic out of context, like a colorful shell removed from a tide pool.) In Snow White--to which the New Yorker devoted almost an entire issue in 1967--the heroine sighs, "Oh I wish there were some words in the world that were not the words I always hear...
...Me” afternoon symposium. The Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub is hosting a birthday party from 8-10 p.m., featuring free drinks, live student music, and a Darwin trivia contest. Lo invites the general public to experience the class’s exhibit in the context of today’s Darwin Day celebration: “It might be interesting to someone coming from the reading of ‘On the Origin of the Species’ to go to the Cabot Library to see what people have done with it and the rest...