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...strongest push toward specialization, however, is financial. And the crowd follows the money. Ophthalmology presented a great example of this. Back when Medicare payed $5000 for taking out a cataract, fully half of the class of medical students I taught were trying to get ophthalmology residencies. (Although three-fourths of them had declared "primary care practice in under-served urban environments" on their med school applications.) Now that a cataracts pays $600, there are maybe a couple kids per class going into the eye field. Because specialists did more training, because they use more expensive parts and pills, because they...
...last presidential election in 2002. Royal's Socialist Party briefly mooted whether to institute a tax on French who move abroad, but soon dropped the idea. For his part, Sarkozy staged a boisterous election rally in London in January, a first for a French presidential candidate, and urged the crowd of about 2,500 expats to return. "We need your work, your intelligence, your imagination and your enthusiasm," Sarkozy said, adding, "Seeing France from the outside, you can better see its defects and its weaknesses - and they are all the more unbearable for you ... But all over the world...
...bull is at the end of his tether - literally. Dragging a clutch of noisy young men on the end of a long rope and harried through the streets of Gaucín, the reluctant star of the traditional Andalucian bull-running festival singles out a man in the crowd, lowers his head and charges...
Harvard’s California tour took a turn for the worse under the lights and vocal crowd of No. 68 Fresno State’s Wathen Tennis Center, as the Crimson lost...
...Columbia’s John Baumann. In the opening game, the top of the Crimson lineup caught fire and was backed by an outstanding relief appearance by senior Jake Bruton. COLUMBIA 5, HARVARD 1 While Baumann’s dazzling performance on the mound captivated the crowd, it was the ejections of Walsh and assistant coach Gary Donovan in the bottom of the first inning that generated the most excitement among the 178 in attendance. Donovan was ejected by first base umpire John Libke after disputing a safe call on a pickoff attempt by Unger. Walsh left the dugout...