Word: farber
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...presentation of the $164,000 check marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the ice skating charity. Mike Andrews, executive director of the Jimmy Fund, accepted the check on behalf of his organization, which is a division of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute of Boston...
...cancer centers today announced the formation of an alliance called the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, which will conduct joint research and will attempt to enhance patient access to the latest cancer treatments. "Managed care is not anti-quality," says Dr. George Demitri, Chief of Clinical Services for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, which formed the alliance along with Johns Hopkins, Memorial Sloan-Kettering, the Stanford University Medical Center and other institutes. But Demitri adds that the control over patient access to certain hospitals that is wielded by managed care plans amounts to the power to define the quality of care...
...TMFONT 1 d #666666 d {Sources: GOOD -- The New England Journal of Medicine; NEJM; Science; Dana- Farber Cancer Institute}]BAD -- Journal of the American Medical Association; Associated Press; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
...addresses of Net site visitors. These lists, critics argue, could soon be sold to the highest bidder --or even to government snoopers. "You'll go into a bulletin board that has an ad, and in a little bit of time, the manufacturer can start sending you junk mail," David Farber, a University of Pennsylvania computer science professor, told TIME Daily. The next step, Farber and others theorize, is a credit-card-like record of what you've bought over the Net and which political discussion groups you've perused. Web programmers, who never intended such consequences, are now talking about...
...least a few residents. Donald Courtney, 67, a retired forest ranger, is one local who refused Primestar. "I can fall asleep in front of one channel as well as I can with a dozen," he says. Nevertheless, TV has made its mark on Arietta. Video rentals at Farber's General Store have dropped. Twelve-year-old Dean Hotaling isn't playing as much basketball as he used to. ("I watch about three hours a day now. I used to watch one hour.") And the barrage of TV news has quickly turned local viewers into members of the blase class. Says...