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...unscathed. Specifically, only a hundred of Harvard’s roughly 6,000 undergraduates are escaping the ivory tower this semester, despite lucrative policies implemented by former President Summers intended to encourage international study. For example, Harvard students only have to pay the relatively small thousand-dollar student services fee to the Office of International Programs should they study abroad...
...science. For these reasons, some in the scientific community have proposed switching to open-publication, online journals. In one model, used by the soon-to-launch online journal of the non-profit Public Library of Science (PLoS), scientists will be able to publish their papers online for a fee after only nominal editing by the journal’s editors. The review process would take place online and post-publication. Only in this case, anyone, not just the author’s scientific peers, would be able to post comments and reviews. In theory, such a system would transform...
...Jackie Mason used to do a bit on this topic - "my doctor is the best doctor." Books and magazines whose covers promise lists of the "very best" doctors sell well every year. A marketing business has grown up around the notion of the "best doctor"; for a hefty fee they bring famous athletes (interested in picking up a few easy bucks in the off season) to my office for me to examine while they take pictures. The ads then say, "When he gets hurt, Bubba only goes to the best - he sees Dr. Haig." I found this almost as funny...
...very inefficient, and - when you add it all up - a lot more expensive than giving one good doc a good fee for taking good care of a person who continues to be his or her patient...
Thursday, October 5. Tickets $10, competition fee for the Adult Bee $5, which includes a copy of “100 Words to Make You Sound Smart.” The Brattle Theater...