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...Greg and his dad at a restaurant in La Jolla, Calif., where Tom runs a for-profit treatment center. After we were seated, I ordered a bottle of cabernet sauvignon, and the server asked for Greg's ID. "He's 17," Tom immediately said. He then asked the waiter if it would be O.K. if Greg drank with his approval. The waiter said...
...Francisco-based Craigslist has had a near monopoly on listings for apartments, cars, relationships and used furniture ever since. The keys to its success have been the (mostly) free listings and a grassroots, community focus that relies heavily on users flagging inappropriate ads. Although it is now a for-profit business with 25 employees (the dot-org suffix is pure nostalgia), the site's founder, Craig Newmark, still refers to it as a "public service" rather than a profit-driven venture...
...students that will participate in it, but also undergraduates, who will receive a new pool of potential instructors and advanced course offerings). Finally, they also passed a measure to make professors’ academic work available online for free—a welcome move to end the era of for-profit academic publishing...
...prominent schools threatened to compromise the free speech environment that is essential to a quality education. For example, Gannett, the well-known publisher of USA Today, entered into talks with the president of Colorado State to discuss a business partnership with their school paper. Partnerships with student publications and for-profit corporations are dangerous. Such deals will most likely serve to limit the leadership opportunities for student journalists and restrict the editorial autonomy of college newspapers. In January, a falling-out between the student government and newspaper at Montclair State University required the editors to suspend publication as the student...
Assigning a dollar figure to Medicare patients' lives may sound crass, but such valuations are routine in Americans' daily lives. Take, for example, the $500,000 death benefit the government pays families when a soldier is killed in Iraq or Afghanistan. Or the cost calculations that for-profit health insurers make to determine how much coverage they'll give customers. In fact, at least some Americans seem at ease with allowing money to play a prominent role in health care decisions. In a 2007 survey of New Yorkers, 75% of participants felt "somewhat" to "very" comfortable with allowing cost...