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...have ties to the medical research industry, according to a survey conducted by doctors at Harvard Medical School (HMS) to determine the extent of those relationships. Sixty percent of department chairs who responded to the survey, published last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association, had some form of personal relationship with private companies, ranging from collecting research funding and paid consulting to receiving free food and beverages. The findings raised concerns about research bias at academic medical centers. “These ties do impact the ability of medical schools to offer unbiased medical education and medical...
...result, all currently enrolled students will have the option of graduating under the Core system, though Core classes may diminish in number over the next few years, Smith wrote in the e-mail. “It will be difficult to sustain this program in its current form over the course of the next several years,” Smith wrote. “Few faculty members are likely to develop new courses for the Core program, and many of the current Core courses will be reshaped and reworked to conform to new General Education guidelines...
...course, those of us who still remember the pre-application college visit know that it can be a uniquely traumatizing experience. My form of pseudo-public humiliation always came at the library stop on the campus tour, where my mom would wave her hand wildly and shout to the unsuspecting student guide, “Do you have open stacks...
...their victims, beating, raping or killing them. Of the 200,000 robberies every year, more than half are classed as "aggravated," meaning the victim was also assaulted. A friend warned me before I arrived in South Africa nine months ago, "This is political crime," meaning the violence is a form of revenge on those more fortunate than the perpetrators. In a society where violence until very recently was part of the grammar of politics, it can still be rationalized by its criminal perpetrators as avenging inequality...
...almost as confusing as their official site, where shy human-pheasants roast marshmallows. Red apples fly, rain falls from severed hands, and Butler performs parlor tricks if you’re intuitive enough to click on him at the right time. You can even indulge in a bizarre form of karaoke by moving the cursor over Win’s face—words in spidery font form in puffs of black smoke. Though these extras can be distracting, viewers might actually appreciate the music once they get past the initial “Coooool!” The band?...