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...desire to get outside of Harvard and experience Boston as a real city was a major factor in Dhaval Chadha’s ’08 decision to move off campus. “I wanted to put myself farther from Harvard,” he says...
...favor of a new one that may work better? Medicine 2.0 often involves incremental improvement of things we're already pretty good at - making things safer or faster, more reliable and, yes, more attractive to patients. That last one, called "patient acceptance" by the industry, is a huge factor in our for-profit, marketing-driven world. But should patients, even really bright patients, who read every word on the Internet about their afflictions, be driving such choices...
...most segregated group, but both are true today. It is also true that white flight and now the exodus of middle-class black families fleeing to the suburbs to escape crime have continued to take good students and active parents away from city schools. But an even larger factor in early 21st century America is the declining number of school-age white children and increasing number of school-age minorities. Such demographic shifts are making it even more difficult to integrate American schools by race or class...
...able to consume quantities of alcohol without it affecting [me] - I didn't slur my speech, I didn't fall down. It's not until you get a little farther into the alcoholism that it begins really to exact a toll on you. It was a factor in the dissolution of my first marriage, and I was headed towards ruining the second marriage. That was really the impetus for me to quit. Carol [his second wife] is an extraordinary woman. She was worth making some changes for, and it turns out, so was I. I haven't had a drink...
...Musharraf?s ability to run for another term while maintaining the office of Army Chief, and a contempt of court case against the government for preventing Sharif?s return among them - but whatever happens, the events will be exhaustively covered by a brand-new press corps, an unpredictable new factor in Pakistani political life that neither Sharif nor Bhutto ever faced...