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...colleagues at Harvard agree that though technology can be a valuable resource—helping to foster lively discussions both inside and outside of the classroom—it cannot replace the experience of attending an institution of higher learning. “If you could skip college and go straight to the internet, it wouldn’t be needed,” said Richard M. Losick, a professor of biology and head tutor in the Molecular and Cellular Biology department. “The Harvard experience would be missing.” For years, undergraduate students in popular...
...event that you do want to avoid that (probably a good idea, FlyBy thinks), UHS ordered 19,000 doses of vaccine this year, up from 12,000 most years, says The Gazette. And anyone with a Harvard ID or a Harvard University Group Health Plan card can go claim theirs...
...have any hope that the recession will jolt Americans out of this funk? I think it's profoundly deeper than greed. I don't think it's hugely surprising that people who go into investment banking are greedy. People who went into investment banking in the '20s weren't altruistic. They wanted to get rich too. Nonetheless, their ambitions was much more tempered by the Protestant work ethic. It was more rooted in a moralistic view of the world and in community. At any investment bank, there are hundreds of people who work there who live thousands of miles from...
...with the Obama Administration earlier this year, cut name-brand-drug costs 50% for Medicare Part D recipients stuck in the "doughnut hole," the gap in prescription-drug coverage that exists once seniors' drug costs for the year exceed a certain amount ($2,700 in 2009). This provision would go into effect in 2010 and is expected to cost drugmakers $80 billion over 10 years. (Part D beneficiaries who get low-income subsidies, are enrolled in a retiree drug plan or earn more than $85,000 would not be eligible for the discount...
...while nearly everyone can agree that the conditions at these youth facilities need to be changed, there is much less consensus about how best to go about doing that. "Nobody said this was going to be easy," says New York State assemblywoman Barbara Lifton, an Ithaca-area Democrat who helped uncover a gross lack of oversight of the entire system. "This is like turning the Queen Mary around...