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...nascent student group, headed by founder Jacqueline E. Stenson ’08, led a preliminary expedition to the Dominican Republic to assess the public health situation in the region...
...your laid-off co-workers. People who lose their jobs often feel ostracized, which is partly a function of how the still-employed, going through internal turmoil of their own, treat them. "Most people say nothing, most people are afraid of you," says Damian Birkel, a career counselor and founder of the nonprofit Professionals in Transition, which provides services to the unemployed. "For someone to come in and offer any type of support during what is the most awkward and embarrassing time you're going to have - that is a courageous...
Unlike audiobooks, novel podcasts are truncated into segments and may include ambient sounds, music as well a cast of voices playing different characters. While successful authors pitch their works on their own Web sites, many newer writers are posted on Podiobooks.com. Evo Terra, the co-founder of Podiobooks.com, says 45,000 episodes are downloaded each day. The success of novels is democratically decided: word of mouth leads to more downloads. Voluntary donations to authors (the web site keeps 25%, with the rest going to the writer) are another indicator an author's popularity. In the future, Terra sees authors...
...reaction - where pilots fly without instruments in low visibility or at night, lose their bearings or make bad decisions, and crash into terrain - caused 80% of all helicopter-ambulance accidents reviewed by the Congressional Research Service in 2006. "The same accidents keep happening over and over," says Stacey Friedman, founder of Safemedflight.org, which advocates for crash victims' families. Her sister Erin Reed was a nurse who died in a medical-helicopter crash in Puget Sound...
...addition, Nicco Mele, founder of Internet consulting company EchoDitto, will serve as a visiting Murrow lecturer, the position Schwartz held this fall. Mele, who was an IOP fellow last semester, will teach a class about the power of digital media...