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...thirds are specialists. The ratio, say most experts, should be at least 50-50, as it is in countries like Canada. But the number of U.S. medical students opting for primary-care careers has plummeted 52% over the past decade, according to the American Academy of Family Physicians. Fewer than 10% of the 2008 graduating class of medical students opted for a career in primary care, and only 42% of residency positions for family medicine are being filled today, leaving a deficit of some 1,500 a year...
...think it would be a mistake for us to be saying there’s no chance that there will be fewer independent libraries at the end of this process,” said Law School Professor John G. Palfrey ’94, who chaired the task force’s subcommittee on technological futures...
...outside media would lead you to think that we are not hiring,” Singer said. “That’s not the case. We’re dong fewer searches this year, but we are doing searches...
...night on a good week. Which sums up what's happened in the sitcom world since Seinfeld left. There have been sitcoms in the decade since - even great ones, like Curb and Arrested Development - but no monster hits. As the great comedy explosion of the '90s faded, networks made fewer and fewer new sitcoms, and those that got on the air were eclipsed by dramas and reality shows. (See the 100 best TV shows of all time...
...raise tuition in order to pay more lay teachers. Meanwhile, increasingly middle-class Irish and Italian families started moving to the suburbs, leaving urban Catholic schools to cater to a majority of lower-income blacks and Hispanics. Less money coming into the church has led to even higher tuition, fewer students who can afford to attend the schools and the potential for even more closures. (Watch an audio slide show about a cloister of young nuns in New Jersey...