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Medical student Leana Wen knows becoming a doctor means that she will soon get lots of nice gift offers--catered lunches, dinners at fine restaurants and endless office supplies, to name a few--from drugmakers that hope she will readily prescribe their products. Yet rather than relish these traditional perks, Wen and the 60,000-member American Medical Students Association (AMSA) have launched a campaign to offset the influence of drug-industry representatives. Students at 150 medical schools intend to fan out this year across the country, calling on 40,000 doctors, urging them to stop depending on salespeople bearing...
...mobile data eats into carriers' profitability too. This year network operators worldwide stand to lose more than $5.6 billion, or 18% of their total revenue, Qpass reports. The broader problem stems from the fact that about half of the telecom industry relies on outdated billing systems that were fine when charging by the minute was standard. Today back-end operations must handle a variety of complex charges, often from third parties, ranging from e-mail services to games, screensavers and other data transactions. As more consumers buy Internet-ready smart phones, and media giants like MTV, Disney, Time Warner...
...penalties in the last five minutes. “The big moments came when Ali Boe kept us in the game,” Stone said. “We have a lot of work to do. We’re young, but we are going to be fine. We just have to weather the storm and Ali understands that fortunately we have someone who can keep us in the games until we figure out what we are doing.” —Staff writer Gabriel M. Velez can be reached at gmvelez@fas.harvard.edu...
...from a third Circuit ruling that allowed Congress, under the Commerce Clause, to restrict possession and sale of machine guns at gun shows. On environmental protections, Alito blocked the right of citizens to take polluters to court under the Clean Water Act, and he threw out a $2.6 million fine against a chemical company for violating the Act.Alito wrote these decisions based on his philosophy that the Constitution does not allow the federal government to protect individual rights in the way that the current Court has interpreted it. We were optimistic about the nomination of Chief Justice John G. Roberts...
...people who are unwilling acknowledge art as a legitimate academic pursuit, despite the fact that we attend a liberal arts institution. And this belief not only leads to uninformed opinions about the inferiority of art as a field of study, it leads to a disparity in facilities between the fine arts and natural sciences in an alarming example of how Harvard prioritizes the latter over the former...