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...care doctors has become "catastrophic," says Dr. Joseph Stubbs, president of the Philadelphia-based American College of Physicians, one of the nation's largest medical organizations. "If things continue as they are," says Stubbs, "by 2025, the U.S. will be 45,000 primary-care physicians short." That dearth of first-level preventive care will push even more U.S. patients to costlier secondary care like specialists and emergency rooms, which threatens to nullify any appreciable cost savings that Congress might pull out of its hat this fall. "If we fill the primary-care void," Stubbs estimates, "we could keep annual health...
Arika Okrent is fluent in English, Hungarian, American sign language and ... Klingon. (O.K., so she has only first-level certification in Star Trek-speak.) Okrent, a linguistics scholar, spent the better part of five years perusing library card catalogs and attending colorful conferences to learn about languages created by one person and, in some cases, adopted by thousands. Her new book, In the Land of Invented Languages, chronicles the scientists, idealists and eccentrics who tried - and failed - to create the perfect parlance from scratch. TIME spoke with Okrent about defending the cranks from the critics, ordering sandwiches in Esperanto...
...says his admittance into Fred Lerdahl’s Music 51: “Theory I”—a first-level music theory class for music concentrators that required an entrance exam for admittance—was a watershed event in his life...
...occupied its first-level place in The Garage since October, says employee Patricia Deeney...
...closing of Lamont library's first-level west entrance and the redirection of library users to the main entrance of the Pusey library entrance are part of an experiment to improve security in the two libraries, Louis E. Martin, Harvard's chief librarian, said last week...