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...residents' workweeks while lengthening the term of the residency overall. In Roshanravan's native Switzerland, where she attended medical school subsidized by the government, she says the family-medicine specialty takes five years, not three as in the U.S. But that would require an even longer postgraduation period of low pay and accrual of debt in this country. "I don't think people want to have to wait to pay off all of that debt," says Roshanravan...
...rhythms are very southern African but because I understand the language, it relates to my culture—the rhythm of it all and the connection between the audience and the performer,” Naseemah says.“It is very organic and low stress,” said W. Hugo Van Vuuren ’07, who was born and raised in South Africa. “It connects people across years and countries.” Van Vuuren credits the Harvard Gumboots group for enabling him to discover more about his own country?...
...Reports like the Milliman Index, however, point up the just as troubling relation between high health-care costs and low-wage demographics like Miami's. Cities and regions with higher income and education rates tend to have access to more efficient health-care plans. In turn, they bear health-care costs that, while they might seem high in places like New York City (which is second behind Miami in the Milliman Index), are usually more in line with what residents can afford and require relatively less out-of-pocket contributions. Locales like Miami, by contrast, often offer residents "less access...
...stop young people from joining the ranks of cartel foot soldiers. "Today, the violence in the cities needs a program of national reconciliation. There needs to be a reconstruction of villages and ranches to make them self-sufficient. There needs to be assembly plants and credit at low interest, incentives for cattle and schools," he wrote. "Violence can be fought with jobs ... We must remember that in the mountains of Mexico, the people are forgotten ... There are no medical clinics, roads or security. Only repression." (Read about the drug war on the U.S.-Mexican frontier...
...democracy, Sri Lanka's recent record on press freedom is an embarrassment. Journalists who dared question the government (and not just over the military campaign) have been threatened, roughed up, or worse. The Jan. 8 murder of Lasantha Wickrematunge, a crusading editor - and TIME contributor - was an especially low point. In recent months, as the fighting intensified, journalists and international observers were kept well away, ensuring very little reporting on the military's harsh tactics and the civilian casualties...