Word: guru
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...condition or fails to counsel the patient fully about proper diet and exercise, that patient could have a heart attack - requiring more treatments - and the doctor would take a financial hit. "The more defects you prevent, the more money you make," says Francois de Brantes, the health-payment-reform guru who coordinates Prometheus. "The fact that anybody has a leg amputated for diabetes" - something that's preventable with proper treatment - "is revolting, so you make that a financial blemish...
Hokestraisameme bears more than a passing resemblance to absurdist viral classics like icanhazcheezburger.com and failblog.org. And that's no accident: all three, as it turns out, are the domain of Seattle-based meme guru Ben Huh, 31. One of his staffers sent him a link to Hoekstra's original tweet, Huh says, and as the responses started flowing in he immediately saw meme potential in Hoekstra's juxtaposition of the horrific and the banal. "You can't really explain why it's funny, but it is," he says. Huh has not yet heard from Hoekstra, but he expects the congressman...
...moderate Republican from Virginia, has emerged as a leading candidate for the Obama Administration's newly created position of cybersecurity czar. Sources familiar with the White House's deliberations on the subject say Obama officials feel a Washington power player would make a better candidate than a tech guru. "They want someone who understands technology issues, but more importantly, knows how to get things done in Washington," says a cybersecurity expert who has been consulted by the White House. "There are very few people who have that combination of skills, and Davis is at the top of that short list...
...outrigger canoe oars to get a better look at their surfing students, spot far-off waves, take photos for tourists or simply to have something to do on flat days. It wasn't until the late 1990s that the modern explosion began, thanks to big wave surfer and exercise guru Laird Hamilton picking up SUP and publicizing it as simultaneously adventurous, peaceful and a solid form of core conditioning for surfers and non-surfers alike. (Read an interview with surfing legend Kelly Slater...
...Brett C. Sweet remains unknown to many professors and staff, but the FAS dean for administration and finance has gained attention in tandem with the increasing fiscal pressures. Smith first called attention to his financial guru at the November Faculty meeting: he had asked “Brett Sweet and others” to research Harvard’s coping mechanisms during past recessions. In a rare moment of uncertainty at the next meeting, Smith stopped mid-thought to double-check a fact with Sweet, who sat on the sidelines. “Yes,” Sweet quietly affirmed...