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...tied to the controversial drug "formularies" used in managed-care to rein in doctors' drug choices. Cardiologist Ganapathy Ramanathan says he regularly prescribes a very expensive heart-attack drug called TPA, at thousands of dollars a dose, rather than the drug streptokinase, which is available for a fraction of the cost but has been found less effective in some studies. "I'm sure the hospital has lost a lot of money on many of my patients, but they've never told me about it," he says. Dunn contends it is more willing to refer patients to expensive specialists. Dr. Theresa...
...study attempted to calculate the fraction of FAS expenditures--including Faculty salaries and research costs, libraries and facilities cost and administrative costs--spent on undergraduates...
...appointments have gone to women), the fact remains that since 1991, the percentage of senior women on the Faculty has only increased from 9.6 percent to 11.5 percent, an annual rate of change of less than 0.4 percent. At this rate, it would take almost 55 years for the fraction of tenured women at FAS to reach one-third...
...percent reflects the strong Faculty consensus that that is about the right fraction for the class as a whole," Dean of Undergraduate Education David Pilbeam wrote in an e-mail message...
Before her fourth-grade class on the Monday after her Friday disappointment, Tracy Robinson loads the manipulatives--the little bars of different colors, each representing a different fraction--into plastic bags. When her students walk in, she distributes the bags. The book she was reading from on Friday is nowhere in evidence. She asks her pupils to use the bars to construct flat, box-shaped designs on their desks. Three of one color, they soon discover, will fill the same space as four of another. When each child has a mosaic on his or her desk, Robinson begins the verbal...