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...spite of the dire need for family physicians throughout the United States, however, American medical students continue to shy away from primary care as a career. Since 1997, the number of medical students entering family medicine residencies has fallen by 50 percent. This year, a two percent increase in family medicine residents was considered by the American Association of Family Physicians to be a triumph. Foreign medical students now fill most of the spaces in family care residencies; this summer, 56 percent of entering primary care residents will be foreign medical students...
...independence of our ratings--which are based on consistently applied criteria--and we recently announced additional measures. A triple-A rating represents our opinion that a security or issuer has extremely strong capacity to meet its financial commitments. While the valuation of many triple-A structured securities has fallen heavily, very few triple-A securities (less than 0.1% originally given that rating by S&P since 1978) have defaulted, which is what our ratings speak to. We have learned a great deal from recent market challenges and will continue to work to support the effective functioning of global credit markets...
...Iraq's Fallen 4,000: Where They Came From...
...ratings for the Tokyo Giants, in particular, have fallen several percentage points since live MLB casts became a regular morning affair in Japan (the Giants' biggest star, Hideki Matsui, defected to the New York Yankees in 2003). But Japanese baseball is far from dead. Seasonal attendance has actually increased in the past three years (by 5%), thanks to the establishment of interleague play. The NPB has also managed to hold on to a core fan base (though some would argue that it is the core fans who have stuck by the NPB). In 2007, the Japan Series drew over twice...
...over with the same casual interest as a box score for a sport you don't follow. I am certain that I am not alone when I open up the Stars and Stripes, the military's daily paper, and immediately search for the section with the names of the fallen to see if they include anyone I know. While in a combat outpost in southwest Baghdad, it was in that distinctive bold Arial print in a two-week-old copy of the Stars and Stripes that I read that my best friend had been killed in Afghanistan. No phone call...