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...their innate resistance to treatment carries a message for the rest of us as well. It requires almost a stroke of luck to enter a U.S. hospital and receive precisely the right treatment--no more, and no less. A landmark Rand Corp. study published in 2003 found that adults in the U.S. received, on average, just 54.9% of recommended care for their conditions. Average blood sugar was not measured regularly for 24% of diabetes patients. More than half of all people with hypertension did not have their blood pressure under control; one third of asthma patients eligible to get inhaled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q: What Scares Doctors? A: Being the Patient | 4/23/2006 | See Source »

...Good luck and hook me up with your hot friends when you make...

Author: By Molly E. Mehaffey, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: DEAR MOLLY: Sex Symbol | 4/20/2006 | See Source »

...since 1920 to the writer deemed by the NEPC to have had the greatest influence on American poetry in the past year or over a lifetime. Past recipients include Robert Frost, Seamus Heaney, Czeslaw Milosz, Adrienne Rich, and Mary Oliver. “The Golden Rose is very good luck,” said Der-Hovanessian, noting that several recipients have gone on to win Pulitzer and Nobel prizes. Ferlinghetti read first from his older and better recognized works, including the 1958 collection, “A Coney Island of the Mind.” Midway through the performance...

Author: By Rachel E. Johnson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Beat Generation Poet Wins “Golden Rose” | 4/18/2006 | See Source »

...Center at about 11:00 a.m. So if you see a guy creeping around the Science Center wearing a pink Polo shirt with a Chicago Cubs cap and holding a Hallmark “I’m sorry about your dead pet rodent” card, wish me luck, but please, don’t turn me in to the police. Eric A. Kester ’08 is an anthropology concentrator in Winthrop House. His column appears on alternate Thursdays...

Author: By Eric A. Kester, | Title: Look Who’s Stalking Now | 4/13/2006 | See Source »

...road they wish they could have taken, only members of the class of 2010+ should have the option of declaring a secondary field. That way, all students can operate under the same rules and assumptions—on a level playing field and without the arbitrary introduction of pure luck...

Author: By Reva P. Minkoff | Title: Leveling the Playing Field | 4/10/2006 | See Source »

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