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Rupert Murdoch's unsolicited bid of $60 per share for the parent company of the Wall Street Journal was greeted as good news for the battered newspaper industry today. Companies across the sector saw their stocks rise...
...opportunity for undergraduate social interaction and a much-needed break from academic stress. Team members hail from different houses so teams can promote a campus-wide sense of community. Club sports also offer students exercise and the psychological benefits that accompany it; an August 2006 study in the journal “Stress & Health” found, in college students, a significant negative relationship between physical activity and self-reported anxiety. Were club sports teams better funded, and by extension, less expensive for individual participants, more students would join and benefit from them. The Department of Athletics should address club...
...Many physicists and mathematicians now go furthest of all, resolving the access question on their own: Even before submitting to a journal, they make all of their work freely available at the repository www.arxiv.org, providing inestimable benefits to the rapid communication of one result and advancement to the next. Similarly, computer scientists almost universally put their papers on their personal, school-based websites. Peer review is as important as ever—nobody gets credit for work that doesn’t pass that scrutiny—but as these scientists have discovered, it doesn’t have...
Intolerance of atheists is so ingrained in our society that public figures can even openly attack atheists without injuring their reputation. During a campaign stop in Chicago in the summer of 1987, then Vice President George H. W. Bush was asked by a reporter for the American Atheist news journal if he “recognized the equal citizenship and patriotism of Americans who are atheists.” In response, Bush said, “No, I don’t know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation...
Over 90 percent of practicing physicians accepted gifts or payments from pharmaceutical companies, according to a Harvard Institute of Health Policy study published yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine. The study revealed that most physicians received drug samples or small gifts, such as pens or mugs, over a third were reimbursed for costs at professional or educational meetings, and over a quarter were paid for consulting, lecturing, or enrolling patients in trials. Although pharmaceutical companies may influence doctor’s prescription decisions, this is not necessarily a bad thing, said lead researcher Eric G. Campbell, an assistant...