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...Increase in the monthly risk to doctor trainees of getting in a car wreck on the way home after a 24-hour-plus shift...
...small seaside town about an hour north of Barnstable began another unsparing manhunt this month in hopes of solving a three-year-old murder. Police in Truro, Mass., intend to collect the DNA of every one of the town's 790 males. After that, the cops may cast a wider net, reaching neighboring towns. They started by approaching men at Truro's few outposts--the post office, the pizza place, the grocery store--and politely asking each if they could swipe a lollipop-size swab inside his cheek. It's strictly voluntary, and the Truro men can say no. Then...
SARGENT: It's amazing. You want to change people's behavior, change the way you pay them. So we decided to pay hourly employees a bonus every month. It is self-funding, so that if a store doesn't perform better, the bonus goes to zero. Now we pay out bonuses to an average of 70% of the hourly workers a month. People making eight bucks an hour can get $2 to $3 extra on every hour they work...
...first hour of the meeting largely became a discussion of the merits and deficiencies of the current academic advising system...
Early in his speech, Summers noted that women remain underrepresented in the upper echelons of academic and professional life—in part, he said, because many women with young children are unwilling or unable to put in the 80-hour work-weeks needed to succeed in those fields...