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...Rand Corp. found that for every dollar spent providing nurse visitors to high-risk families, the government could save nearly $6 in welfare, juvenile-justice and health-care costs down the line. Dividends for the families' well-being may be even higher. A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (J.A.M.A.) in 1998 found that children in upstate New York whose mothers were visited by nurses during pregnancy and two years after birth were 59% less likely to have been arrested 15 years later, compared with a control group. After receiving visits by nurses during their mother...
...saying so far, so good. The vaccine appears to be effective against the most widely circulating strains of influenza, and there is plenty of the drug to go around. The only dark cloud has been a disturbing rise in drug-resistant flu, but new data published Monday in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggest that despite the resistant strain, things aren't as bad as they could be. (Read "What You Need to Know About Drug-Resistant...
...from a car accident, Gray committed suicide in 2004. Kathleen Russo, Gray’s widow, compiled “Stories Left to Tell” in tribute to her deceased husband. Taking material from Gray’s more famous monologues as well as his never-before-performed journal entries, she was able to create a loosely chronological picture of his life.The play started with a vignette inspired by his children and then circled back to Gray’s painfully funny stories of adolescence in a small Rhode Island town. Each actor performed monologues centered on a different...
When Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan ascended to the masthead of the storied Harvard Law Review, she inherited a journal that had gone unpublished for four issues due to the previous year’s dysfunctional student management. As supervising editor, Kagan played a central role in bringing the journal up to speed, sacrificing much of a summer to complete her predecessors’ unfinished issues.Nearly 20 years later, Kagan rose to lead the Law School, another institution plagued by infighting and discontent. Though it had begun to experience a revival, the school still faced major unresolved issues when...
...schadenfreude • Wall Street Journal article evokes strong feelings of in non-fans of the Bush administration