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Harvard Medical School has suspended funding for its Primary Care Division as part of a broader departmental restructuring effort, prompting students and faculty to circulate a petition calling on HMS Dean Jeffrey S. Flier to reaffirm the School's commitment to primary care education.
According to Nancy J. Tarbell, dean for academic and clinical affairs at HMS, the School had provided roughly $200,000 in funding each year to the Division. She said that the Division, which has not been disbanded but whose structure and administration is being reviewed, will remain affiliated with HMS...
"The reorganization of this division is really a narrow administrative issue," said HMS Dean of Medical Education Jules L. Dienstag. "It has nothing to do with the commitment of HMS to primary care, which is unchanged, undiluted, and undiminished."
Now GM's recovery will rest on its ability to hold on to customers or win over new ones. That's no small task, as GM has been forced to skimp on cash for engineering during its yearlong financial crisis. Even so, GM is off to a good start with...
Since May 2008, the company has repaired 375 miles (600 km) of dirt road, leveled thousands of acres of rubber, identified 600,000 (250,000 hectares) more, and won a $112-million loan from the U.S. government-funded Overseas Private Investment Corporation to build the power station. In Buchanan, they...