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...passed his state's bar exam without having attended a day of law school, former National Park Service director George Hartzog was anything but conventional. During his nine-year tenure as director, the South Carolina native brought nearly 70 new areas--some 2.7 million acres (1.1 million hectares)--under Park Service protection and often used daring techniques to secure funding, including shutting down parks two days each week when President Richard Nixon cut the budget in 1969. After a public outcry, the funding was restored, and Hartzog's legacy was secured as a dedicated proponent of the environment...
...School does not hold its own classes over the summer. The courses canceled Monday were run on the Law School campus by BAR/BRI, an outside bar exam preparation company...
Walk into any exam room in the medical center's 140-acre (57 hectare) campus east of downtown Cleveland, and you'll find a computer terminal on a small rolling cart that physicians and nurses use to document every step of patient care in an electronic chart. Instead of scribbling notes by hand on a metal-clad clipboard, doctors and nurses use the fill-in forms on the monitor to type in each patient's symptoms and vital signs, progress and prognosis, and medications prescribed and taken...
...doctors' resistance broke down, the technologists turned to patients, who also needed a little convincing. Placing exam-room computers on moving carts was an important early step, so that physicians didn't have to turn away from the patient to enter data into the terminal. This helped resolve a common patient complaint, that electronic records seem impersonal...
...depressing place during reading period, but I was suddenly nostalgic for and sad about everything I would be missing. I wanted to spend a late night in Lamont, watch the Patriots with my roommates when I really should have been studying, and be told by a curmudgeonly exam proctor that I would be held “incommunicado” if I felt ill during an exam. Most of all, I did not want to miss my final weeks as an editor at The Crimson and all of the traditions that came at the end, such as running a final...