Word: grading
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...place like Harvard Medical School gets an F - particularly when rivals Stanford, Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania are pulling A's and B's. But that's what happened recently when the members of the increasingly influential - and increasingly noisy - American Medical Student Association (AMSA) decided to grade 150 med schools on just how much money and gifts they're collecting from drug companies. The more goodies a school is vacuuming up from the industry, the worse its grade...
...issue exploded this week, when the New York Times published a pair of stories tracking Harvard's industry ties. The school might have turned a whole new shade of crimson when its flunking grade from AMSA was made public last summer, but things got even uglier in November when 40 med students rallied on campus to demand that industry and academia make a clean break. The facts, they argued, justify their outrage. Of Harvard's 8,900 professors and lecturers, 1,600 admit that either they or a family member have had some kind of business link to drug companies...
...deteriorating economy causes philanthropic giving to dry up. No one disagrees that isolating academia from the industry may be ideal, but even many academics concede that the cooperation yields more good than harm. And while Harvard might be the highest-profile name that was posted on AMSA's grade list, it was hardly the only one that flunked: 40 out of the 150 schools surveyed received F's; only...
...colleagues wanted to study the effects of a relatively small amount of alcohol, the amount adults - mature adults, that is - might typically consume at dinner or in other social settings where drinking isn't the main event. Researchers tailored the composition of their cocktails - a mixture of medical-grade alcohol and limeade - to the participants' weight and gender, to achieve an average blood-alcohol content of .04%, half the legal driving limit in most states of .08%. Nixon was surprised by the results. "We often want to say that if we are below a legal limit, there are no consequences...
...something woman moves swiftly down the Rue de Rivoli, gray hair pulled back, looking like an iconic grandmother or retired grade school teacher. But as she runs a red light and speeds into a crosswalk filled with people, the woman slaloms her large bicycle between startled pedestrians - barking at them to stand clear despite their having the right of way. "Dégagez!" She shouts the order to give way. "Why are people so stupid?" (See pictures of the U.S.'s National Bike Month...