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...openness, over the past few years, such states as Florida, North Carolina, Missouri, Illinois, Colorado, Arizona and Oregon have passed bills under which a doctor's apology for a medical mistake or expression of sympathy is inadmissible in civil court. A few like Pennsylvania are even mandating the prompt, formal disclosure of any such errors to patients and state authorities. Legislation has been introduced in Congress to help set up similar pilot programs in other states, and President Bush recently signed a bill establishing a confidential and voluntary system for reporting medical errors. In addition to giving people less motivation...
University President Lawrence H. Summers, who was involved with the Committee on General Education as an ex officio member in 2004, did not attend the meeting. He ceased his formal contribution to the review in 2005, citing a desire “for the Faculty to take full responsibility for the review...
...left standing. So shocking was the destruction that U.S. occupation authorities, who would run Japan for the next 61/2 years, seized the film of some 30 Japanese newsreel photographers who had arrived some days after the bombing to record the destruction. The Americans, fearful of inciting rebellion even after formal surrender, had no intention of letting the rest of Japan know what Hiroshima looked like...
...easy to become a conductor. There are formal academic programs, but you can really learn to conduct only by doing it, and to do it you need an orchestra. "You have no instrument to practice," Alsop told TIME. "You can't get any experience." In her 20s Alsop worked as a freelance violinist in New York City, but after hours she would bribe her musician friends with pizza to let her lead them through Mozart symphonies. When she couldn't get a regular conducting position, she founded her own ensemble, the Concordia Orchestra. Never let it be said that Alsop...
...warfare. "But they also put a stop to a lot of our fun," says Puloka. As well as fanifo, underwater rugby (played among the breakers with hilarity and all manner of monkey business) seems to have been a casualty of British decorum. Traditional culture survives, though only in more formal incarnations, such as kava ceremonies and dance. Despite the hot climate, it is still forbidden for men or women to go shirtless in public...