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...What these data point out is that it's important to recognize that disease patterns differ in different populations," says Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, one of the study's authors and co-director of the Center for Vulnerable Populations at the University of California, San Francisco, and San Francisco General Hospital. "We would have completely missed this at-risk group had we only been looking at older age groups. We would have also missed them if we had not been studying African Americans in large numbers." (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs of the past year...
...exceptionally good at learning stuff that’s inside books!” 2. FM: Why do you think that smart people are bad at dating? Shouldn’t we be good at it? We’re good at a lot of things.AB: People in general are not very good at dating because it’s not a skill that’s taught, and very few parents actually spend time on this kind of thing...and yet it’s probably one of the most if not the most important aspects of life?...
English Professor Louis Menand recalled feeling thrilled when the Harvard Faculty finally approved the new curriculum at the last Faculty meeting of the 2006-2007 academic year. Menand, who helped author the Report of the Task Force on General Education, said that almost the entire room—168 professors, to be exact—raised their hands as the Secretary of the Faculty counted the votes. At that meeting, the Faculty moved to eliminate the nearly 30-year-old Core program and implement the new Gen Ed curriculum over a period of two years...
...adjacent bookshelf I see “General Education in a Free Society”—more commonly known as the Red Book, Harvard’s famous 1945 treatise that changed the face of American education...
...group's first test will come during June's European elections, which choose the U.K.'s representatives to the European Parliament. After that, the Jury Team competes in the general elections, which will take place some time before May 2010. The Team plans to field 70 candidates for the elections in June and a confident Judge believes the movement will "release the same wave of energy as was unleashed by Barack Obama." It's early yet, but as of Tuesday morning only 10 people had created online profiles, and just 35 had voted by texting in the name of their...