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Managed-care companies in several states, eager to rein in prescription-drug costs, foot the entire MedVantx bill, which includes keeping track of which patients receive a 30-day supply of one of 21 generic drugs. Among the latest to sign on is Medica, Minnesota's largest HMO, which installed MedVantx machines in 10 clinics this month. According to Medica's medical director, Dr. Ted Loftness, a mere 1% increase in generic prescriptions could save the company more than $6 million a year. --By Julie Rawe and Sarah Sturmon Dale
Nonetheless, Summers was always eager to hear our diverse views, and he was thrilled when we would display the sort of passion and rigor that he loves—especially when we reached conclusions different from his and forced him to reconcile his ideas with our evidence. And as important as it is for Harvard’s president to propose theories, it is equally admirable for other scholars and students to challenge Summers’ statements with theories, research and discussions of every kind...
...weapons-control technician who refused on Dec. 6 to board the U.S.S. Bonhomme Richard to help transport 3,000 Marines to Iraq, has been assigned to janitorial work while awaiting a ruling on his conscientious-objector application. Raised in the Bronx, Paredes joined the Navy because he was eager to get an education. Nearly five years later, he says he is ashamed to be a member of the same military responsible for the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison and claims to be a victim of the "poverty draft," which he says encourages poor people with no career prospects to join...
...story centers on the tempestuous love/hate relationship between American Will Darcy and Indian Lalita Bakshi. He is the son of a wealthy hotel family; she is an independent and headstrong daughter of a mother eager to marry her and her three sisters off to well-established young bachelors. The storyline should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with Jane Austen, or any standard boy-meets-girl Hollywood romance, really; what makes this film so enjoyable is its marriage of Eastern style and Western content (especially fun to see when the setting moves to Los Angeles) and the way this...
There’s no question that students and faculty would respect a professor’s wishes to limit enrollment in order to promote quality. Rather than take his frustration out on students who were eager to take his class, Wegner should have instituted a fair lottery that gave priority to seniors and concentrators...