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...Academy initiative is the brainchild of Dr. Daniel H. Lowenstein, dean of medical education at HMS. Formerly stationed at UCSF, Lowenstein convinced both schools to pursue the project...
...whole point is to address a structural limitation which prevents disbursement of resources from optimally supporting the teaching mission of medical school, because of the competing research and clinical components," Lowenstein said...
...moves represent a significant fraction of a total revenue stream that could top $7 billion this year--bigger even than the annual take from movie box-office receipts--and nobody is going to tighten that spigot without a fight. "Video games don't teach people to hate," said Douglas Lowenstein, president of the Interactive Digital Software Association, last week. "The entertainment-software industry has no reason to run and hide...
Almost every parent I know is asking these questions--and reaching very different conclusions. It seems to me that the two poles of the debate are held down by Doug Lowenstein, president of the Interactive Digital Software Association, and David Grossman, a retired Army lieutenant colonel and former professor of psychology at West Point...
...Lowenstein, not surprisingly, believes the video-gaming industry has become a convenient scapegoat for society's ills. "The difference between cigarettes and video games is that video games are constitutionally protected under the First Amendment," he claims. Indeed, video games represent a type of artistic expression, like movies. Yet even movies have rating systems. When I was a child, it was pretty hard to sneak into an R-rated movie. But any kid can buy any video game, regardless of the rating it has been given by the industry. Lowenstein says that's the retailers' problem--and the parents...