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Both bills in Congress would set up new institutes to organize and fund more comparative-effectiveness research, ostensibly to help guide health care policy. (The $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 has already authorized $1.1 billion for the field.) And yet as Diana Buist, a researcher at Group Health in Seattle who received some of the stimulus funding, says, "[Comparative-effectiveness research is] a hard sell. It always has been." According to a 2007 Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report on the topic, "Some experts believed that less than half of all medical care is based...
...historic proportions, says Alex Munton, a Middle East analyst at global energy consultancy Wood Mackenzie. "There are very few examples in history you can point to and say, 'A similar thing happened there,' because there really have not been any," he says. After a flurry of initial oil field - development deals were completed in November, Munton said, "Iraq's future has just changed, absolutely...
...Even if our students dedicate half of their lives to dancing, it’s still in this extra-curricular category.” Aune went on to point out that there are many Universities around the country that have successfully incorporated dance into the academic field of study and produced positive results...
Over the past several years, Harvard has begun to offer a few dance-related courses for college credit and has introduced a secondary field of study in dramatic arts, but there is still no major dance presence in the curriculum. The leadership of the Harvard Dance Program continues to express a desire to see more dance classes offered for credit in the coming years...
Though fairly self-explanatory, this one can have some unexpected results. Now that the new sophomores have declared their concentrations, who knows what field of study is dreamiest! Try not to let the Image-Not-Available’s get you down. Those people are the worst...