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Despite having a Harvard president in shambles, Eflenbein says that the incident was the point of lowest morale for the sit-in participants. “I always liked Rudenstine personally and that made it hard,” says Elfenbein...
...Nathan, director of the Diabetes Center at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, who chaired the study. During the three years of the study, nearly 30% of the placebo group developed diabetes. For the metformin group the figure was 22%. The subjects who exercised moderately and lost weight had the lowest incidence of all--just 14%. (The first two groups were given diet and exercise information but did not lose as much weight as the last group.) The study is continuing to see if lifestyle changes can prevent diabetes for life or merely delay its occurrence. At the very least...
...three-tier plan charges three possible prices for medications—the lowest price for generic drugs, the middle price for drugs that are low in cost or are preferred by the insurance company, and the highest price for expensive drugs or for drugs that the company does not prefer...
...eight to 10 instructors, a system so mired in bureaucracy it requires a series of secretaries, forms, rubber stamps and stops at several offices merely to get some photocopies made. Yes, this system may be more "democratic" - but democratic in the sense that it reduces virtually everything to the lowest common denominator. France does a magnificent job of educating its students through high school, but at the higher level the goal seems to be the financial security of the academics rather than the education of the young. So what are the radical reforms suggested by the present government that have...
...emergency contraception has been available since the early 1970s. In 1999, the French parliament made the medication available without a prescription. And a year later, high-school nurses were given permission to provide the drug without parental consent. France’s abortion rate is now one of the lowest in the world—and half the U.S. rate...