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...Minimize your caffeine intake. If you must have caffeine, try weak tea instead of coffee. Excess caffeine, along with grease and sugar, can impede oxygen flow through the capillaries and induce fatigue...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: dealing with STRESS | 3/1/1997 | See Source »

...years so long as they produce 2,000 fewer doctors, for a decrease of 20 percent in training rosters. Medicare, which has been subsidizing the physician education for thirty years, hopes in this way to wean the teaching hospitals away from the profitable practice of turning out an excess of specialists. Currently, hospitals earn an average of $100,000 for every resident they train, but pay the residents less than half of that, using the rest to bolster their overall finances. Says Bruce Vladeck, administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration, which runs the Medicare and Medicaid programs: "Until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paying Hospitals to Train Fewer Doctors | 2/19/1997 | See Source »

...years so long as they produce 2,000 fewer doctors, for a decrease of 20 percent in training rosters. Medicare, which has been subsidizing the physician education for thirty years, hopes in this way to wean the teaching hospitals away from the profitable practice of turning out an excess of specialists. Currently, hospitals earn an average of $100,000 for every resident they train, but pay the residents less than half of that, using the rest to bolster their overall finances. Says Bruce Vladeck, administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration, which runs the Medicare and Medicaid programs: "Until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paying Hospitals to Train Fewer Doctors | 2/18/1997 | See Source »

Casey said he hopes the auction will raise in excess...

Author: By Andrew S. Chang, | Title: Eliot, Kirkland Fundraise for Dining Worker | 2/13/1997 | See Source »

...extraordinary changes. Starting shortly after birth, a baby's brain, in a display of biological exuberance, produces trillions more connections between neurons than it can possibly use. Then, through a process that resembles Darwinian competition, the brain eliminates connections, or synapses, that are seldom or never used. The excess synapses in a child's brain undergo a draconian pruning, starting around the age of 10 or earlier, leaving behind a mind whose patterns of emotion and thought are, for better or worse, unique...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FERTILE MINDS | 2/3/1997 | See Source »

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