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...sniffles. What Hillesheim, 56, didn't have was an inclination to spend half the morning in a doctor's waiting room. Instead, she went to Cub Foods, her local supermarket. Specifically, she dropped by a tiny clinic nestled beside the store's pharmacy, just across from the cigarette counter. There, behind a frosted-glass partition, a nurse practitioner examined Hillesheim, typing her vital signs and symptoms into a computer before giving her a prescription to treat a sinus infection. The visit took 20 minutes and cost $59. Hillesheim forked over $25, the co-pay required by her insurer...
...Americanization of European economic policies and Europeanization of American economic policies could close the two enduring and threatening gaps: the US savings gap and the EU growth gap. Imagine a world where Europe would grow thanks to the exercise of counter-cyclical macroeconomic tools and America would save through the wise restraint thereof...
...Jewellers, an argument across the counter appears to be verging on a fistfight. Two men punch calculators furiously. A third appears to wrestle with the seller. Dangayach laughs and interprets: "He's saying 15 rupees a carat, the other one says 2, and the broker says, 'Yes, you take it for the pleasure.'" Finally, the deal is done at 5.25 rupees per carat. "I've seen a broker literally pick up Munnu and carry him across the room to close the transaction," says De Taillac...
...family comes from Pakistan, reported the incident to the Cambridge Police Department, but was later disappointed by what she said she perceived as the College’s nonchalant response. “No administrator contacted me with the exception of [Director of the Harvard Foundation] Dr. [S. Allen] Counter,” Farid says. No community advisory was sent out by the administration, and for a couple of days after the incident, Farid wore hoodies to hide the head scarf, or hijab, she wears. Although recent attacks against Muslims on the Harvard campus have not been directly perpetrated...
...University of Utah because of a newly passed state initiative, according to an administrator at the state university. “While I’m fairly certain that the researchers are strongly considering moving, I’m sure that Harvard will provide some kind of counter-offer,” University of Utah Vice President for Technology Venture Development and Dean of the David Eccles School of Business Jack Brittain said. “That’s the way it works in academics.” The Utah Science, Technology and Research Economic Development Initiative (USTAR) grants...