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...They make you feel like a convict" is what doctors say about the people, commissions, agencies and departments we must answer to, every month, for the rest of our lives, or be stripped of the right to practice medicine (as well as the ability to earn a living). Every doctor lives under continuous scrutiny from federal, state, hospital, insurance company, specialty board, medico-legal, and professional conduct organizations. Hundreds of pages of forms must be filled out, hundreds of thousands of dollars spent, hundreds of hours of study and examination must be completed every year - just to stay in practice...
Louis Menand turned in the “first draft” of his task force’s report early this month, and now he’s waiting to see if it will earn a passing grade...
...guidelines, which the department approved 7-2, state that if a student does not earn a score of 240 or above—a score equivalent to being “proficient”—they must complete an “Educational Proficiency Plan” before they can qualify for a diploma...
...where is all the money coming from to buy, and do we have enough of it? According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, we earned average after-tax incomes of about $22,000 per person in 2004 and spent about $17,000 per person. That means Americans save very little of what they earn and end up paying for much of what they buy on credit. "Credit cards have allowed a whole different way of buying," says Cynthia Jasper, a professor of consumer science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. "People are saving a lot less and spending...
...Columbia’s .136 to take the third (30-25), and Columbia hit .234 to Harvard’s .192 to capture the fourth (30-28).But the fifth game was by far the closest of the match, as Harvard edged out Columbia by just two points to earn the victory.“Defense will keep us winning,” Mahon said. ‘When we have that, we’ll keep rolling...