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...rate of hospital-acquired infections. The small bonuses typically amount to 10% of physicians' annual salaries or less, but studies demonstrate that they can dramatically improve the services doctors provide. "Offering doctors and hospitals more money encourages them to do a better job," say Leah Binder, CEO of the Leapfrog Group, a nonprofit consortium of major health care buyers such as General Motors. "We've already employed that logic to every other area of business. Why not health care...
...apparent when Dean and the DNC made their original fateful decision. Last May, Republican Florida Governor Charlie Crist and the state's G.O.P.-controlled legislature - fed up with what they call an absurd presidential primary process that gives small states like Iowa and New Hampshire inordinate clout - decided to leapfrog Florida's primary from March to Jan. 29. The move violated Democratic as well as Republican party rules, but many if not most Florida Democrats also supported it. Still, the DNC ruled that all 210 of Florida's Democratic nominating delegates would be annulled. It exacted the same draconian punishment...
Unfortunately, it may not be quite that easy. Fifth-place Union is in good position to sweep its final contests of the season at Yale and Brown, which would allow it to leapfrog Harvard and Cornell should either team fail to match that pace. And with Cornell (vs. Dartmouth) at Harvard (at Colgate) both favorites to win on Friday, it could mean that the final first-round bye will go to whoever comes away with two points when the two teams meet on Saturday night. After a turbulent and unpredictable season for the Crimson, it could very realistically all come...
...news with great enthusiasm - and no small amount of concern. Positive study results like these offer hope that ARVs may someday help stem the rate of new infections worldwide, but public-health experts in the U.S. worry that they may also prompt people in affluent at-risk communities to leapfrog the emerging science and self-medicate. "It's inevitable," says Dr. Warner Greene, director of the Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology at the University of California, San Francisco. "Nobody wants to wait...
...jobs. If they temporarily located to another community that has those things, you can't reasonably ask them to give up those things and come back. In a way - and this is an odd silver lining out of a destructive storm that nobody asked for - it allows us to leapfrog and make bigger changes than can be done elsewhere. We're now getting to rebuild - in some cases from scratch - our schools, our health care infrastructure, our transportation infrastructure. We now have the opportunity to incorporate the best technology, the latest thinking, in a way that other communities...